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Claude Attaches Safety Cable  
   

Claude Attaches Safety Cable

Claude attaches safety cables to the antenna sleds. These cables will hold the sleds in place if the primary cable should snap for some reason. This procedure took several hours of lying flat on the snow.
Our Work At WAIS

January 4th 2006
This looks at some of the work we did at WAIS. The photos were taken from Dec 29 - Jan 8. PRISM (Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements) is a group that has developed a variety of radars for studying the ice sheet and the bedrock under the ice sheet. They have also developed an autonomous rover (robot) that is under GPS (global positioning system) control that can carry the radars and move them a ... read more
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