Technical Design Completed For The New European Research ...

'Aurora Borealis' will further strengthen the operational capabilities of the European scientific community. Since there are currently no research icebreakers of comparable size and capacity for year-round autonomous operations in polar waters, this project promises to facilitate for the first time year-round expeditions into some of the most extreme realms of our planet, thus helping to gain new insights into the historyclimatic variability,the present environmental conditions of the polar regions..