The proposed expedition of a lone explorer and the use of Nimbus 6 (NASA meteorological research satellite) to track his journey is reported. The journey is scheduled to start March 4, 1978, and will cover a distance of 6.000 Km (3,728 miles) from northern Canada to the North Pole and return, traveling the length of Greenland's isolated interior. The mode of transportation for the explorer will be by dog sled. Instrumentation and tracking techniques are discussed.
NASA satellite to track North Pole expedition
1978-02-24
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
Online Contents | 1995
Euromoon 2000 - European Lunar South Pole Expedition -
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|The Wellman expedition to the pole in a dirigible balloon
Engineering Index Backfile | 1906
|