After spending the holidays in Antarctica, an international research team led by Vinciane Debaille - G-Time Laboratory, Free University of Brussels - has returned from its mission with a lot of meteorites. Among them, a 7.6 kg meteorite . An international team led by Vinciane Debaille (FNRS-ULB) and composed of Maria Schönbächler (ETH-Zurich), Maria Valdes (Field Museum of Natural History-U. Chicago) and Ryoga Maeda (VUB-ULB), and guided by Manu Poudelet (International Polar Guide Association) has just returned from a reconnaissance mission in Antarctica to search for new meteorite accumulation areas around the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station. Thanks to funding from the Federal Science Policy (Belspo), three VUB-ULB-NIPR (Japan) missions were successful in the Nansen Blue Ice Field, with more than 600 meteorites discovered. Now the international team has taken on the challenge of finding new meteorite accumulation areas. Using satellite images and GPS coordinates, the team went to discover the potential of several areas of interest, identified thanks to the work of Veronica Tollenaar, a thesis student in glaciology at the ULB.
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