Arrived in Svalbard

I am currently in Svalbard Norway, an island in the Spitzbergen Archipelago. We are up here getting ready to launch a NASA sounding rocket. This view is looking across the valley towards the hills on the far side. This is a 2 second exposure; it is pretty dark unless your eyes are dark adapted. The lights on the right side of the picture are from a coal mine. Our observatory is up the hill from this mine. I am going there for the first time later today, so I will report in on what I find in the next post.