A newly developed snow vehicle (SM100S) for Antarctica II. Design of the system

• Main Authors: Masashi Nakajima, Masayuki Hosoya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1992
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dome Fuji; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00008782; https://doaj.org/article/c3e22700d4a444d28b89f15af8430635

This paper describes the design of the systems of a newly developed snow vehicle, which will be used for the deep ice coring project at Dome Fuji, East Antarctica. This vehicle is a cab-over full-track type, in which the accommodations for two persons are prepared. The vehicle is 11500kg in gross we...