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During the 2023-24 BELARE season, Dr Valentina Savaglia from the University from the University of Sevilla samples microbes from open top chambers for the BELSPO-sponsored ExPoSoils project, which seeks to understand how microbial communities might be affected by climate change.

This image of the setting sun was taken around midnight by Perseus, some 60 km from the Princess Elisabeth station. 

Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition scientis Kai Lu was generous enough to grant an interview about their work aboard the Snow Eagle aircraft which fly's with high precision instruments along the grounding line around Antarctica, as part of the greater RINGS project. 

PEA team accompanied with film team from Eric Goens enjoying dinner and discussions at the Perseus Airstrip. 

One of our science technicians, Simon Steffen is shown here performing the annual service of one the automatic weather stations (AWS) that make up the PEACE (Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Climate Experiment) Network. One of 6 AWS that are spread out of a nearly 300km transect, from the coast to the Antarctic plateua. 

Visible here is a big halo surrounding the sun while setting over Sør Rondane mountains in Antarctica. A halo is a ring of light that forms around the sun or moon as the light refracts off ice crystals that are present in a thin veil of cirrus clouds suspended in the atmosphere. 

IPF team member returning from working on a research site at the beginning of Antarctic plateau and driving back towards Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station. In the distance the Sør Rondane mountains are visible. 

A member of the IPF team is taking in the surrounding landscape and reflecting on yet another successful season at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica before having to depart the ice sheet. 

This DC3 aircraft from the Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) is equipped with high precision instruments to accuractly map the bedrock topography around Antarctica, by penetrating through all the ice with their high precision instruments on board. This is part of the RINGS project, which is a multi national project that aims to map the entire coastline of Antarctica to better understand its mass balance and contributions to global sea level rise.