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A month on the Ice Sheet - Photographic Impressions
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Our mode of transporation to and from the ice. Landing a helicopter on the ice surface was not a trivial task and not entirely without danger.
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A lake of melt water near the edge of the ice sheet
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An impression of our camp from the helicopter
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The 31-meter mast
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The 13- and 4-meter masts
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Instrument maintenance means mast climbing
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With all the melt, we had to tend to our sleeping quarters on a daily basis.
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One day we noticed a fountain in the distance...
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maybe a subsurface reservoir being pushed upwards by the stress in the ice?
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Happy hour
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Our site as seen from the 31-meter mast. This is further on in the period
on the ice: show has turned into sludge.
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Sleeping quarters after the one snow storm we had
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Digging out equipment and wires at the end of the campaign. Wires melt themselves deep into the snow/ice, simply by the heat they absorb.
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Fog was very common on the ice sheet
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