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A nice view of PEA and the antenna taken by a drone when installing instruments for the EPFL-CRYOS project.

A drone takes a photo of PEA's antenna as trained field guides prepare to install severla instruments on the top of the antenna for the EPFL-CRYOS project.

PEA's antenna stands tall against a beautiful Antarctic landscape behind it.

IPF field guides install instrument on top of the antenna at PEA for the EPFL-CRYOS project.

Simon Steffen works on an automatic weather station in the workshop at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. During the 2024-25 season, Simon and colleagues have maintained the six existing weather stations in the PEACE project network and added two new stations.

During the last week of December 2024, temperatures at PEA went above freezing for some time. In this photo, members of the BELARE team clearing snow from the roof of PEA on a warm day to avoid metlwater pooling on the roof of the station's annexes.

A meltwater pool forms in the Utsteinen Nunatak windscoop not far from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.  During the height of the austral summer, temperatures at the staton can climb above freezing for several days in a row.

When a meteorite is found in the field, its GPS position and a provisional number are noted, after which the rock is put in a plastic bag. The meteorites are kept frozen for their journey to the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences and are then defrosted with care to avoid any alteration of the samples.

Micrometeorites recovered from the Belgica Mountains. Micrometeorites between 50 micrometer and 2 mm in diameter are very important to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system. They contain information different from that provided by larger meteorites and may derive fromunknown asteroids.