Barentsburg Cosmic Ray Station


Russian settlement Barentsburg on the Spitsbergen (Svalbard) archipelago



The end face of the PGI observatory building
and green van in front of it with the neutron monitor. (March 2003)
The meteorological observatory is on the right.



Eduard Vashenyuk by the van with the neutron monitor 6-NM-64.



Data collecting unit and computer inside the van.
Sensors of pressure and temperature inside and outside (black boxes on the wall).


In 2004 the van with the neutron monitor has got an external plating and a steep roof to shed snow



Since April 2005 the neutron monitor consists of two sections.


In December 2005 (in conditions of the polar night!) the third section was installed.



Now the neutron monitor in Barentsburg is a standard 18-NM-64 instrument.