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NASA EM-31 Ice Thickness Project.

North Pole Expedition 2003.

Rhett Herman holding the EM-31 Ice Thickness Tester.

This is the home page for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ice Thickness Project on the North Pole and Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. April 2003.

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Photo by C. Jeff Dyrek

Rhett Herman and Jim Prepare the EM-31 for initial use in Longyearbyen. The Radisson hotel is warm and this is where the initial equipment setup and primary operational test are made. If it doesn't work here, it won't work on the ice.
The purpose of the EM-31 project is to measure the thickness of the ice and compare the results to a satellite to ensure the satellite accuracy.

Here's a link to the NASA Site about the EM-31 Project.

Webmasters note: Looking back at this expedition of 2003 from the year 2006. I have worked as an Avionics Technician for eighteen years for both the military and civilian. When I heard about the EM-31 project I was so excited that I absolutely had to see this unit on the inside and learn how it worked. It was like an uncontrollable obsession. It was about midnight and I went to the hotel manager and demanded that he wake Professor Herman up and introduce him to me. The manager immediately said that he absolutely couldn't do that and I would have to wait until the morning. I repeatedly demanded that he complied with my request, when Professor Herman walked into the lobby. The manager said, "There he is right there."
I talked to Professor Herman and strongly requested that he immediately show me the EM-31 and open it up so I could see inside. After about an hour of talking, he did exactly that. We had a great time the rest of the night working with the EM-31 on the ice of Longyearbyen Bay. I just want to thank Professor Herman and the rest of his crew who stayed on the ice with me all night, missing a night of sleep, just because I was so curious. It was a great experience.

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