BELISSIMA: Ice Coring around Princess Elisabeth Station

Ice core drilling

Ice core drilling

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  • Ice core drilling
  • The BELISSIMA drilling team is assembling the equipment.
  • Ice core drilling on the ice shelf
  • The BELISSIMA drilling team: Jean-Louis and Bryn lean towards the drilling machine
  • Extracting the firn core from the drill
  • The precious coring machine: an object of special care
  • First sample analysis: measuring the ice-core
  • Measuring the firn core temperature
  • 40 m of ice: centuries of natural history at the bottom of the freezer
  • GPS base station at the Princess Elisabeth Station
  • GPS base station on the coastal ice rise
  • Ice radar sounding
  • Kenny (nickname of Kenichi), setting up his radar: he is our Americano-Japonese radio-glaciologist
  • Traversing the ice sheet with a skidoo
  • Pulling the ice radar system

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Teacher Koen Meirlaen performs the experiment at the Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica.

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