Late in january me and 3 other students joined Mikko on a trip up to the field station at Breinosa; the site of the Kjell Henriksen Observatory and the EISCAT Svalbard radar. We were tasked with digging up the field station itself since it was covered in snow up to the ceiling.
The whole ordeal took about 4 hours, as the snow was hard-packed from the icy winds of Svalbard. At these latitudes, the sun won't come back over the horizon until mid-february, so it was completely dark for the most part. Bad for the polar bear-guard, very good for the northern lights-enthusiasts!
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| The EISCAT Svalbard 42m field-aligned dish to the left and the 32m dish set to "tourist mode" with the southern sky in the background. |
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| Shoveling snow under the aurora |
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| Radio science paraphernalia that were buried by the snow |
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| Happy students Aurora & Erlend with head engineer Mikko in the back |
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