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On December 24th 2024, the new hydrogen production facilities developed by engineers Mathilde Renard and Nicolas Herinckx this year were inaugurated at a ceremony led by BELARE team leader Alain Hubert and engineer Mathilde Renard.

The IPF team gets ready to launch the first weather balloon using hydrogen produced at PEA, December 24th, 2024.

In late December 2024, members of the BELARE team headed to the coast to prepare the site where members of the NISAR and PASPARTOUT projects will install instruments.

Members of the staff dress up to bring some holiday cheer during Christmas Dinner at the Princess Elisabeth Antartica.

Members of the GEOMAG project from the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium pose with instruments in the non-magnetic Radome scientific shelter. Part of their mission this year at PEA is update the electrical system powering their interuments so they can be adjusted remotely.

Members of the BELARE team exchange gifts following Christmas dinner. The team's been working very hard over the last two months and have earned a bit of relaxation at Christmas!

Members of the GEOMAG team Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium pose in front of the Radome non-magnetic scientific shelter, which houses instruments that monitor Earth's geomagnetic field.

Everyone who was at the the staton on Christmas Eve turned out to see the inauguration of the new hydrogen production facilities at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

IPF Mechanics hard at work on fixing the sledge on a living container that scientists use while on extended missions in the field.