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Straight back into cargo operations this morning, a slightly slower pace as we have only one set of lifting gear for the concrete blocks, and these need to be shared with the station, between blocks we have other cargo to move of course.
We're expecting less comfortable conditions tomorrow, and no operations the next day so the plan is to take the barge and IRB and their crew back onboard overnight to free up beds for the Cosmic Ray scientists and other essential personnel.
The Cos Ray team are replacing a firmware chip on each neutron monitor amplifier with an updated version. The neutron monitors and muon telescopes at Mawson study solar storms and high speed solar wind streams (which also have space weather effects which can disable satellites and give some radiation dosage to airline passengers) disturb fluxes of galactic cosmic rays, which are also measured by these detectors. In addition to maintaining these detectors, which have unique functions in global networks, they hope to upgrade the Mawson neutron monitor to detect spectral variations in cosmic rays for improved understanding of solar ejecta and interplanetary plasma conditions.
Obviously!
Cheers
Andy and Amy
FTM
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