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Science at Halley September 2004



Mike Digging Snow Pit SB

Mike the Halley Communications manager helping the Caslab team by digging a snow pit and taking snow samples.

The main event at the Caslab this month was the "intensive" these are carried out around the Equinoxes and Solstices when the frequency of data sampling is increased. Instead of taking samples weekly, they're done daily and for one day samples are taken continuously for a 24 hour period

Snow Samples taken From Pit SB

The last Aurora seen at Halley this year JAC

With the increasing amount of daylight this is probably the last Aurora we will see at Halley this year


Due to a possible Ozone vortex split event all down time on experiments and data loggers was kept to a minimum this month to ensure continuous data was recorded.