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Schlindwein handing off her gear to Akse.

Schlindwein handing off her gear to Akse.
Schlindwein handing off her gear to Akse.
Schlindwein handing off her gear to Akse.
Schlindwein handing off her gear to Akse.
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Linder, Christopher
Schlindwein handing off her gear to Akse.
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09/11/2007
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Schlindwein hands off her gear to Akse, as helicopter mechanic Mart Reskow plays his important role. Interestingly, after its polar mission, the gear is now headed on another scientific mission, this time in a warmer climate of Mozambique, she said. Though Schlindwein's ice-floe seismic stations were designed to record small seismic waves from near by, they also recorded large seismic waves from far away: from the large magnitude 6.6 earthquake on July 16 off the west coast of Japan-5,520 kilometers (3,430 miles) away. One type of seismic wave, the P-wave, from the Japan earthquake took 8 minutes 51 seconds to travel to her seismometers, which at the time were located on an ice flow three nautical miles from the ship.
Photo by Chris Linder
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