On September 26th, 2019, Marcel Nicolaus, marine physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), placed an ice buoy on a floe during the passage of the Polarstern to the Central Arctic. It was the first buoy to be sent off during the MOSAiC expedition. It was part of the "Distributed Network," a large buoy network that drifted around Polarstern at distances of up to 50 kilometers and continuously and precisely monitored this area. For almost two years, the buoy was on its way until its journey now ended near Tromsø.
Forscher des Norwegischen Polarinstituts konnten die Boje von einer kleinen Felseninsel einsammeln. Auf dem Weg hat das Messgerät seine Positionsdaten per GPS gesendet, um die Drift des Meereises zu zeigen, auf dem die Boje trieb. Das Polar Research Institute of China hatte sie auf die MOSAiC-Expedition geschickt.