Water is supplied to the individual buildings in high Arctic places like Ny Ålesund through pipes that run above ground due to the permafrost. The pipes need to be massively insulated and often are heated to prevent the water from freezing. (Archive photo: Michael...
The nanoAUV being developed at MARUM in Bremen will be similar to this model. It will be no more than about 50 centimeters long with a diameter of about ten centimeters. Graphic: MARUM TRIPLE-nanoAUV 2 is being developed at the German MARUM – Center for Marine...
Sometimes bad space weather causes our communication systems to break down – particularly in the Arctic. For this reason Ph.D. fellow Sarah Schultz Beeck is developing maps, showing where in Greenland the space weather causes bad or no connection. In an emergency...
Black, white and shedding light on the red planet (Photo: Elisse Magnuson / McGill University) Since 1997, if you wanted to send someone to Mars, but have had not had the technology to do so, your best alternative was Devon Island, in Nunavut. Because of the island’s...
Only the framework and the base of the new observatory on the Belgrano II Antarctic Station are yet in place, but the telescope is scheduled to be installed as early as 2022/23 and put into operation soon thereafter (small image). Picture: CONICET / UNAHUR Antarctica...