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NIPR in number

1,April 2023

Low-temperature room facilities
Low temperature laboratories: 9
Low temperature storage rooms: 6
Room-temperature laboratories: 2
Operating time: 8,760hrs (FY2018)

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (SHRIMP Laboratory)
Operating time: 1,872hrs (FY2018)

Polar Science Computer System
Operating time: 8,685hrs (FY2018)
Number of accounts: 174

Program of the Antarctic Syowa MST/IS Radar (PANSY radar)
Number of antennas: 1,045


Absolute gravity meter FG5

Absolute gravity value at NIPR
9.79770849 ±0.000000043m/s2
(January 25, 2017)

category collection borrowed samples (users) FY2018
Rocks and minerals ca. 20,000 103 (23)
Biological specimens ca. 60,000 71 (9)
Meteorites ca. 17,400 321 (78)

Library

category collection
Books Books: 28,200
Journals: 3,900 titles
E-books E-books: 23,400 titles
E-journal: 4,400 titles
Maps 3,600
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