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| Date / Time: 2013-06-27 20:15:57 | Voyage from: to | ETA: |
| Fred-Report: Hello sunny day! You may not believe it but last week I saw the sun from a very different point of view! Now the sun is gone and we are moving slowly through the polarnight. But before saying „Good bye“ to the sun, I was inside a helicopter. That was my first helicopter flight in my life, and I really enjoyed it.  At the beginning, when Sascha Schwabe, one of the pilots on Polarstern told me that he will bring me to the helicopter I was a little bit afraid. But he told me that Lars Vaupel, the other pilot, is very experienced. The weather was very nice, not too much wind and only some clouds with clear sky in between. This is very important for a safe flight! It was a little bit windy, but I saw that the technicians Thomas Müller and Carsten Möllendorf are very professional and helped the pilots for a safe take off and landing.  I was sitting with Dr. Joelle Buxmann on the front seat of the helicopter. She is a scientist, a physicist, on board of Polarstern and wants to know what kind of gases are in our atmosphere. She measures ozone and halogens from the ship already. But she wants to know how these gases occur over different ice patterns and at different heights. So she takes her instrument on the helicopter flight. The gases interact very fast with each other and destroy ozone, for example.  She seems to be very nice and like me she was very excited too. But as soon as we were in the air, we were only fascinated by the view while flying high above the icy ocean. And how Lars manages all these instruments, amazing! I had a look, too.  Oh that was so much fun, but I am happy that we are all safe back on board of Polarstern. For more reports and photos go to www.meereisportal.de Yours, FRED Photos     | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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