A report on "Penetrators for Antarctic on the 64th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition"

Abstract

This report summarized the results of the tests and observations conducted by the “Development of Antarctic Observation Penetrators and Intensive Observation in the Shirase Glacier and Surrounding Area” team of the 64th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-64) at Syowa Station on the sea ice and ice sheet from 22nd December 2022 to 11th February 2023. The main purpose of the tests is to collect primary data for JARE 65 and 66th as the first year of the three-year project. We conducted five tests to evaluate the three elements, penetration, measurement, and communication, comprising the penetrator system.

Keywords

• penetrator
• glacier observation
• ice quake
• infrasound