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Science Eureka! Vanco Arctic Survey delivers first live Arctic video
Science Eureka! Vanco Arctic Survey delivers first live Arctic video | Eureka! Vanco Arctic Survey delivers first live Arctic video |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Saturday, 03 November 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Fortunately for the explorers the wolves proved true to form and after a 15-minute stand-off “evaporated into the Arctic night”. The ground penetrating radar, dubbed Sprite, will be able to differentiate between snow and ice layers, which satellites and submarines are unable to do. The computer connected to Sprite will produce a daily summary of the results showing the thickness of the ice traversed that day. Data from Sprite is processed and fed to the Iridium link using a Linux-based system mounted on a sledge. Its main functions are to archive data onto non-volatile storage, to read data cards from the cameras and bio-data sources, to handle compressed web-cam images in real-time and to feed data files to the six Iridium modems. It is reported to do all this on a power consumption of just two watts.{moscomment}
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