JARE-43 ジンコウ ジシン タンサ ニ オケル スチームドリル ニ ヨル ハッパコウ クッサク

第43次日本南極地域観測隊(JARE-43)は,JARE-41に引き続いてみずほ高原にて人工地震探査実験を実施した.JARE-41と同様に,7ケ所の発破孔の掘削にはスチーム噴出式氷床掘削ドリルを用いた.掘削作業時間は,直径35-40 cm,深さ23.5-28.7 mの発破孔を掘削するのに,7-8時間であった.平均掘削速度は3.25 m/hrであった.A seismic exploration was accomplished in the austral summer of 2001-2002 by the 43rd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-43) along a profile oblique to that held by JARE-41 on the Mizuho Plateau, East Antarctica. We used a steam type drilling system to obtain seven blasting boreholes. We spent 7 to 8 hours to make an enough depth of the hole for one shot point. The holes were 35 to 40 cm in diameter and 23.5 to 28.7 m in depth. The average drilling speed was 3.25 m/hr

Development of the equipment for measuring the microenvironment and a model of lightweight germfree excavator, to study the micro-ecosystems in the polar area.

第2回極域科学シンポジウム/第33回極域生物シンポジウム 11月18日（金） 統計数理研究所 3階リフレッシュフロ

DECIGO pathfinder

DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to provide us fruitful insights into the universe, in particular about dark energy, a formation mechanism of supermassive black holes, and the inflation of the universe. Since DECIGO will be an extremely large mission which will formed by three drag-free spacecraft with 1000m separation, it is significant to gain the technical feasibility of DECIGO before its planned launch in 2024. Thus, we are planning to launch two milestone missions: DPF and pre-DECIGO. The conceptual design and current status of the first milestone mission, DPF, are reviewed in this article

The status of DECIGO

DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) is the planned Japanese space gravitational wave antenna, aiming to detect gravitational waves from astrophysically and cosmologically significant sources mainly between 0.1 Hz and 10 Hz and thus to open a new window for gravitational wave astronomy and for the universe. DECIGO will consists of three drag-free spacecraft arranged in an equilateral triangle with 1000 km arm lengths whose relative displacements are measured by a differential Fabry-Perot interferometer, and four units of triangular Fabry-Perot interferometers are arranged on heliocentric orbit around the sun. DECIGO is vary ambitious mission, we plan to launch DECIGO in era of 2030s after precursor satellite mission, B-DECIGO. B-DECIGO is essentially smaller version of DECIGO: B-DECIGO consists of three spacecraft arranged in an triangle with 100 km arm lengths orbiting 2000 km above the surface of the earth. It is hoped that the launch date will be late 2020s for the present

Ice drilling for blasting boreholes in deep seismic surveys (JARE-43) by steam type drilling system

A seismic exploration was accomplished in the austral summer of 2001-2002 by the 43rd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-43) along a profile oblique to that held by JARE-41 on the Mizuho Plateau, East Antarctica. We used a steam type drilling system to obtain seven blasting boreholes. We spent 7 to 8 hours to make an enough depth of the hole for one shot point. The holes were 35 to 40 cm in diameter and 23.5 to 28.7 m in depth. The average drilling speed was 3.25 m/hr

Cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNA for the plastid glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase from squash

AbstractThe partial amino acid sequence and amino acid composition of acyl-(acyl-carrier-protein):glycerol-3-phosphate acyl-transferase purified from squash cotyledons were determined. cDNAs encoding this enzyme were isolated from λgt11 cDNA libraries made from poly(A)+ RNA of squash cotyledons by immunological selection and cross-hybridization. One of the resultant clones contained a cDNA insert of 1426 base pairs and an open reading frame of 1188 base pairs. The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence matched the partial amino acid sequence determined for the enzyme. The results suggest that a precursor protein of 396 amino acid residues is processed to the mature enzyme of 368 amino acid residues, losing a leader peptide of 28 amino acid residues. Relative molecular masses of the precursor and mature proteins were calculated to be 43838 and 40929 Da, respectively