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Final system checks confirm that all sensors and data transmission are working as intended.

The solar thermal panels that have heated water at Princess Elisabeth Station since 2009 are carefully removed, making way for the new units shipped for this season.

Removing a broken engine from a Prinoth tractor as part of ongoing mechanical maintenance and equipment reliability checks.

The skidoo is carefully lifted using a small hoisting system to the workshop for maintenance, ensuring it can be safely used again in the field.

A glimpse of the extreme environment where our climate data is collected. High winds and freezing temperatures show why regular on-site checks are crucial.

With all the snow from last winter cleared, the BELARE 2025–26 season is off to a strong start!

The first five crew members arrived and successfully unloaded all their supplies, now the DC3 can go back to get the other 14 team members.

The BELSPO funded FROID research project with support from the International Polar Foundation and its staff spent 5+ weeks by the Nils Larsen blue ice field in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. The research project's primary objective this season was to scout various locations in search of the World's oldest ice, drilling many shallow ice cores in the process The air bubbles trapped within these cores can be analyzed and used to reconstruct the Earth's past climate which simultaneously lends insight as to where the climate is heading in the future. Additionally, the team also ran ground penetrating radar to see all the way through the ice to the bedrock as well as carrying out high precision GPS measurements to determine the speed at which the ice is moving.