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View of the German-French research base AWIPEV in the Spitzberg science village of Ny-Ålesund with the observatory. A laser beam leaves the observatory through the lidar hatch. When it is dark, one can often see a bright green laser beam shooting into the sky above Ny-Ålesund from the AWIPEV observatory. The laser beam is part of a LIDAR system that has been operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam since the 1990s. On clear days, it is used to examine the atmosphere for thin clouds and aerosols, the smallest suspended particles in the air.
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Some Houses in the remote village of Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen. The image was taken on one of the rare clear sunny days in spring.
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Scientists in the Arctic Ocean near Ny-Ålesund on Spitsbergen (Norway) in front of the Kongsfjord glacier. German and French scientists have been working at the AWIPEV research base in the former miners' settlement on the Svalbard archipelago since 2003. Scientific work at the Koldewey station includes observations of the north polar stratosphere and studies of life in and around the Arctic Ocean.
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