Fig. 1: The 2018–2019 Antarctic campaign on board the WindSled mobile station.
From: Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau
A Itinerary showing the locations where the two set of samples were collected: red circles named N, M and S, for three cores for geochemical and microbiological studies; and yellow stars (a–f) for six oxygen and hydrogen isotope analysis core samples (see Fi. 2). B the WindSled mobile platform consisting of three modules (driving, payload, and living room) and wind-powered by a 200 m2 kite. C Drilling system and the aspect of the 1 m snow/ice cores. D Airborne aerosol collector in the field and scheme: 1, manifold pipe; 2, turbine; 3; sample holder; 4, Fan 9GT0612P4G001; 5, collector support; arrow, flow direction (see Materials and Methods for further details). E Five-day back-trajectories of the air parcels from the collected samples on the African sector of the East Antarctic Plateau. Grey contour lines indicate altitude at 500 m intervals. The depicted back-trajectories originate from the three distinct sampling points: N (red), M (green) and S (blue). These trajectories are computed at 25%, 50%, and 75% of the boundary-layer height with hourly initialization the sampling periods.
