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| The ARAKS scientific campaign, Kerguelen, 1974-1975 |
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After my return from the CITADEL campaign, I work, with my colleagues of the Groupe de Recherche Ionosphérique (GRI), on the preparation of another scientific campaign. During this campaign, the ARAKS French-Soviet experiment (with the participation of a US laboratory) will take place, aimed at the study of the magnetosphere. Beams of high level energy electrons will be injected along the magnetic field lines from rockets launched from Kerguelen islands (southern Indian Ocean). The arrival of the electrons at the other side of the magnetic field lines, over the Arkhangelsk region in the USSR, should create an artificial aurora detectable by a specialised radar.
The GRI team, to begin with, will have to equip a new laboratory of geophysics in Port-aux-Français base, Kerguelen islands, French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF).
We leave Paris at the end of September, 1974, for a six-month duration.
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| Click on a photo to open the corresponding album |
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| From Paris towards Kerguelen |
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| Neighbourhood of the base |
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| Visit of Port-aux-Français |
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| Guy Penazzi's personal website - guy.penazzi@gmail.com |
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