Dancing Sky Traditional Cache
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Short drive off Hwy 11 on Sylvain's Rd. Hop skip and jump to cache.
Put in a new container. Still a magnetic container with logbook only. Bring your own pencil. This cache is situated at an antenna array that is used to observe the night sky for our wonderful Aurora Borealis.
Canadian contribution
Most of the readily accessible land under the northern-hemisphere auroral zone is in Canada. So 16 of the 20 ground-based observatories are set up in Canada while the four others are in Alaska.
THEMIS observatory sites in Canada and Alaska (Illustration: Eric Donovan and Mike Greffen) Dr. Eric Donovan, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, leads the Canadian part of the THEMIS program. His team of scientists and engineers has worked closely with their American counterparts to develop the ground-based observatories. And they are responsible for fielding the Canadian observatories and retrieving the massive amounts of data from the entire array.
THEMIS is a NASA-funded mission led by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and involves scientists from the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Current Canadian activity is funded by the Canadian Space Agency. Ultimately, THEMIS will involve scientists from the Universities of Calgary, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan, as well as the Natural Resources Canada Geomagnetic Laboratory.
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