Interview of Peter Gallinelli, skipper of Nanuq, polar sailboat

-FOOTAGE- Peter Gallinelli is on his way to embark upon his sustainable arctic sailboat Nanuq from Isafjordur Iceland to reach the Svalbard archipelago, North of the Arctic Polar circle. On board, among other experiments, the PolarquEEEst, a cosmic ray detector especially built at CERN for this pola...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catapano, Paola
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: CERN 2018
Subjects:
EEE,
cosmic
rays,
Centro
Fermi,
polar
expedition,
muons,
Peter
Gallinelli,
Nanuq
Arctic
Norway
Svalbard
Svalbard Archipelago
Iceland
nanuq
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.17181/cds.2630302
https://videos.cern.ch/record/2630302
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Summary:-FOOTAGE- Peter Gallinelli is on his way to embark upon his sustainable arctic sailboat Nanuq from Isafjordur Iceland to reach the Svalbard archipelago, North of the Arctic Polar circle. On board, among other experiments, the PolarquEEEst, a cosmic ray detector especially built at CERN for this polar expedition within the EEE (Extreme Energy Events) project, by Centro Fermi Rome and INFN Bologna, with the participation of school students from Norway, Italy and Switzerland. Nanuq will circumnavigate the archipelago of Svalbard reaching a latitude of 82°N where cosmic rays have never been measured before.

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