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Expedition members after Fram’s return to Christiania in August 1896. Back row, left to right: Blessing, Nordhal, Mogstad, Henriksen, Pettersen, Johansen. Seated: Bentzen, Scott Hansen, Sverdrup, Amundsen (with dog), Jacobsen, Nansen, Juell. Appears in Fridtjof Nansen’s 1893 book, Farthest North (Constable & Co, London, 1897) 2. Public domain
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“The curtain of blackness which has fallen over the outer world of icy desolation has descended upon the inner world of our souls. Around the tables, in the laboratory, and in the forecastle, men are sitting about sad and dejected, lost in dreams of melancholy from which, now and then, one arouses with an empty attempt at enthusiasm”. Quote attributed to Frederick Cook 4. Other ventures, such as the Greely expedition (1881–84), suffered even more dire circumstances: while attempting to set up a base on Ellesmere Island, the Greely crew was resorted to cannibalism. Just six of a crew of 25 survived.
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Frederick George Jackson was a great explorer who made a famous journey across Lapland in the middle of winter. In 1894 he explored Franz-Joseph Land, an inhospitable frozen country north of 80 degrees latitude. Jackson, accompanied by six companions, lived there for three years, before returning home and writing a book about his exploration titled ‘1,000 days in the Arctic’.
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The sievert is a unit of ionizing radiation dose that measures the health effect of low levels of this type of radiation on the body.
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Occasionally, NASA’s has overworking its astronauts: for example, in 1973, the dog-tired crew of Skylab 4 staged a relaxation revolt and took an unscripted day off.
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Seedhouse, E. (2015). Isolation and Medical Care. In: Survival and Sacrifice in Mars Exploration. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12448-3_4
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