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In January 2005, members of a Chinese expedition team … were the first humans to visit Dome A on the Antarctic plateau, a site … predicted to be one of the very best astronomical sites on earth. In 2006, the Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy (CCAA)…
PLATO is a fully-robotic observatory designed for operation … in Antarctica. It generates its own electricity (about 1kW), heat … (sufficient to keep two 10-foot shipping containers comfortably above … 0◦C when the outside temperature is at −70◦C)…
The THz spectral region includes a number of important … transitions which allow us to trace the evolution of the interstellar … medium. Because of the opacity of the atmosphere in this spectral … range, the best sites for ground-based THz observations are on the … Antarctic Plateau; of these sites…
With the development of next generation aircraft designs capable of ultralong-range flight and … extended flight endurance…
ABSTRACT. The PLATeau Observatory (PLATO) is an automated self-powered astrophysical observatory that … was deployed to Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau, in 2008 January.
Abstract Since it is the largest glacier system in Antarctica, the Lambert Glacier basin plays an important role in the mass balance of the overall Antarctic ice sheet.
Surface snow accumulation along the Chinese ITASE traverse line was measured using … bamboo stakes. Stakes along the initial (coastal) 300 km of the line were installed in 1997. The stake network was extended to 465 km in 1998, to 1100 km in 1999 and finally to 1228 … km (from the coast to Dome A)…
From its original formulation in 1990 the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition … (ITASE) has had as its primary aim the collection and interpretation of a continent-wide array of … environmental parameters assembled through the coordinated efforts of scientists from several nations.
An updated compilation of published and new data of major-ion (Ca, Cl, K, Mg, Na, NO3, SO4) and methylsulfonate (MS) concentrations in snow from 520 Antarctic sites is provided by the … national ITASE (International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition) programmes of Australia, Brazil, China…
The temperature of upper 20 m was measured at four sites, S1, LJ, LJ24 and BJ, during a period of 21 months at the western Law Dome, Antarctica. the sensors were emplaced at the depths of 1, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 15 and 20 m. S1 is in ablation sphere with a dynamo-metamorphosed ice…