Scientists make final preparations for field work aboard an icebreaker, which will be locked in the Arctic sea ice for one year.
Final Preparations
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Scientists make final preparations for field work aboard an icebreaker, which will be locked in the Arctic sea ice for one year.
Daily weather briefings give rhythm to otherwise irregular days filled with launch attempts and instrument tests.
A data shortage in the large swaths of larch forests in Northeast Siberia is a prime reason why we wanted to come here.
The BOBCAT mission is testing a cool, new type of cryogenic liquid containment system for balloon-borne telescopes.
The high severity of the burn scar north of Yakutsk may be out of the ordinary, and attracted the interest of the science team.
The science team gears up for a balloon launch from Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
NASA balloons carry world class telescopes, cosmic ray detectors, and Earth science instruments.
After the Tomsk campaign, we traveled to Yakutsk for the next leg of the campaign that came with new scientific objectives.
Researchers gathered in the western part of the Siberian boreal forest, where they collected the tree-ring data needed to reconstruct the area's fire history.
Scientists gathered in Kenya to discuss how satellite data can best be used to promote farmer and pastoralist resilience to drought.
