Landing with a Dash-8 in the deepst of Canada - Sudbury.
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With my work in the Technology Transfer Office at the European Space Agency I went for one week to Canada to visit our main partners there. Business trips is actually a very good way to see a country.
Canada is big. We jumped from one town to another - and to do so in Canada you have to use a plane because of the distances.
Landing with a Dash-8 in the deepst of Canada - Sudbury. |
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 Montreal, Quebec (view from my hotelroom). |
 Sudbury, Ontario. |
 Toronto, Ontario. |
 Advanced technology used for modelling and simulation of mining operation. |
 Preparing to go down Creighton mine, Shaft No. 9, to inspect the Sudbury Neutrino observatory. 2 kilometers under the ground.
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 ... arriving after 2 km downwards and 1 km walking through the mine. Needless to say a cleaning was required before entering the observatory. |
 SAR, or Syntetic Aperture Radar, can be used for ground motion monitoring. One of the project consisted of replacing huge passive transponders... |
 ...with a slick active transponder. |
Even on a business trip there is fortunately some time to explore a little bit on ones own.
 Maid of the Mist, Niagara falls. |
 Niagara on the Lake. The U.S. across the river. |
 Atlantic Coast, St. Johns. |
 CN Tower, Torono. |
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