Facilities

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1. Airborne science and technology

   Discover the UK’s national capability to support science from the air

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2. Cambridge garage and mechanical workshop

   Getting vehicles ready for Antarctic service

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3. Halley garage and mechanical workshop

   The garage facilities at Halley are well equipped and the vehicle mechanics are able to repair most breakdowns that may occur on site.

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4. Rothera garage and mechanical workshop

   To ensure that the vehicles fleet remains reliable and succeeds in supporting deep-field science and station operations there’s is fully equipped mechanical workshop staffed by vehicle and plant technicians.

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5. Tractor train traverse system

   Our tractor train traverse system is an innovative way to support deep-field science across Antarctica.

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6. Vehicle and mechanical engineering workshop

   Discover how our vehicle fleet is prepared for polar service

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7. Rothera Air Facility

   With its runway Rothera Research Station is the polar operations hub that supports British Antarctic Survey’s airborne capability

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8. Underwater camera systems

   The Shallow Under Water Camera System can work to depth up to 1000m, showing a black and white live low resolution video stream and can take colour high resolution stills.

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9. scientific mooring winch

   The RRS James Clark Ross has a purpose build scientific mooring winch, which is capable of deploying mooring of up to 4000m length of 14mm rope diameter.

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10. SAOZ

    SAOZ measures sunlight scattered from the overhead sky in a way that allows us to calculate how much of the atmospheric gases ozone and nitrogen dioxide the light has passed through on its journey.

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11. Dobson Spectrophotometer

    The instrument that led to the discovery of ozone depletion over Antarctica

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12. FIPASS

    Falkland Interim Port and Storage System

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