Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica calves giant iceberg
23 January, 2023
ANTARCTICA – 23 January 2023. A huge iceberg (1550 km²), almost the size of Greater London, has broken off the 150m thick Brunt Ice Shelf. It calved after cracks that …
Halley VLF receiver
Halley VLF receiver, Halley VI, Brunt Ice Shelf, Caird Coast
- Position
- Lat. 75°34'5"S, Long. 25°30'30"W
The Halley VLF receiver listens to very-low frequency radio waves as part of a network of receivers located all over the polar regions. The data gathered by this network is used by more than 35 institutions around the world to:
- record and map, in real-time, lightning strikes around the world
- use the upper atmosphere as a gigantic energetic particle detector to find out about interactions between our atmosphere and particles from the solar wind
- listen to powerful VLF communication transmitters located in mainland USA, Hawaii, Europe (including the Lake District) and study changes caused by solar flare, solar eclipses and explosions on other stars
- record and analyse whistling tones originating from lightning in America – this inputs into space weather models used to protect satellites from the harsh radiation environment of space
‘Sounds’ of the sun inspire an extraordinary new album
2 December, 2022
A new album transporting listeners on a journey to the Sun and inspired by ‘sounds’ captured in space and on the ground shows the magic created when science and the …
Mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras is solved
12 July, 2021
The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, scientists have seen the entire mechanism at work – and it could be a …
‘Sounds of space’ feature in album Celestial Incantations
21 June, 2021
Celestial Incantations – New album release from Sounds of Space Project New album Celestial Incantations is released today by the international Sounds of Space Project, comprising of Dr Nigel Meredith …
New album Aurora Musicalis brings the ‘sounds of space’ to the public
6 May, 2020
A new album with the unique ‘sounds of space’ recorded from Antarctica is released free today (6 May 2020). Aurora Musicalis contains the natural radio ‘sounds’ of our planet, recorded …
‘Sounds of Space’ from Antarctica feature in space simulation game
11 December, 2018
Amazing, natural, ‘sounds of space’, have been incorporated into the new exploration gameplay in Elite Dangerous
Documentary follows BBC’s Peter Gibbs back to the ice
29 April, 2016
BBC Horizon documentary ‘Ice Station Antarctica’ to be broadcast on Wednesday 4 May at 8pm, BBC2.
‘Sounds of Space’
Using a Very Low Frequency receiver at Halley Research Station we can pick up radio waves made by our planet. We use these waves to investigate the science of space …
Halley Automation
Halley Automation This innovative, multi-year, project aims to provide a micro-turbine power supply and datalink to a suite of autonomous scientific instrumentation around the Halley VI Research Station and on …
QEPPA
QEPPA is a joint project between the British Antarctic Survey and the Space physics group at Lancaster University. The objective of QEPPA is to work out the amount of charged …