Flights |
Test flight! Here is a clear-sky section that we were looking for.
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Clouds above and below us.
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Looking towards the sun.
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A short glance on Svalbard's science village, Ny-Ålesund.
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Passing a glacier.
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A glory, our constant companion - it indicates that the cloud consists mostly of droplets
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Aerial view of Longyearbyen
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Icing, our enemy
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P5 taking off for ARTE's vista flight
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Longyearbyen |
Arriving at Svalbard airport around midnight, we find the sun to shine across the pole.
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View on the Adventfjord from our airport office.
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View on the Adventfjord from our airport office.
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Approach of the Polar-5 to LYR (Svalbard Airport Longyearbyen).
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Finally: P5 in Longyearbyen!
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At 1.30 a.m., the Sun starts to shine into the hotel room.
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Coal mine number 7 and the Eiscat antennas in Adventdalen, at the end of Longyearbyen's longest road
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Longyearbyen's reindeer are not very shy.
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Remnants of the coal industry are abundant.
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Integration Bremerhaven |
The empty Polar 5 awaits the instrumentation. For instance, the EM Bird (lower right).
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The cabin of the P5 is still empty.
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The instrument racks are almost ready to be loaded into the P5.
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A research aircraft has lots of holes - like this which will hold the SMART-Albedometer sensors to measure solar radiation.
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The nadir sensors of the SMART-Albedometer are already in place.
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