My IGY in Antarctica
Dr Charles Bentley is the A.P. Crary Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Bentley joined the Arctic Institute of North America in 1956 to participate in International Geophysical Year (IGY)-related activities in the Antarctic. H...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20130009176 2023-05-15T13:34:40+02:00 My IGY in Antarctica Bentley, Charles Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available January 2012 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20130009176 unknown Document ID: 20130009176 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20130009176 Copyright, Distribution under U.S. Government purpose rights CASI Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: The Role and Utility of Long Range, Long Duration Traverses; 13, 98-122; NASA/CP-2012-217355 2012 ftnasantrs 2018-06-23T23:08:41Z Dr Charles Bentley is the A.P. Crary Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Bentley joined the Arctic Institute of North America in 1956 to participate in International Geophysical Year (IGY)-related activities in the Antarctic. He wintered over consecutively in 1957 and 1958 at Byrd Station, a station in the interior of West Antarctica that housed 24 men each winter - 12 Navy support people and 12 civilian scientists/technicians. During the austral summers, he also participated in over-snow traverses, first as co-leader, then leader (the other coleader went home after the first year). These traverses consisted of six men and three vehicles, and lasted several months. These traverses covered more than 1609 kilometers (1000 miles) of largely unmapped and unphotographed terrain. During these traverses, connections to Byrd Station were by radio (daily, when the transmission conditions were good enough) and roughly every 2 weeks by resupply flight. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Institute of North America Arctic The Arctic Institute West Antarctica NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Arctic Antarctic The Antarctic Austral West Antarctica Byrd Byrd Station ENVELOPE(-119.533,-119.533,-80.017,-80.017) |
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Dr Charles Bentley is the A.P. Crary Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Bentley joined the Arctic Institute of North America in 1956 to participate in International Geophysical Year (IGY)-related activities in the Antarctic. He wintered over consecutively in 1957 and 1958 at Byrd Station, a station in the interior of West Antarctica that housed 24 men each winter - 12 Navy support people and 12 civilian scientists/technicians. During the austral summers, he also participated in over-snow traverses, first as co-leader, then leader (the other coleader went home after the first year). These traverses consisted of six men and three vehicles, and lasted several months. These traverses covered more than 1609 kilometers (1000 miles) of largely unmapped and unphotographed terrain. During these traverses, connections to Byrd Station were by radio (daily, when the transmission conditions were good enough) and roughly every 2 weeks by resupply flight. |
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