Frozen in time

Air Force Capt. Adam Hanson 673d Aerospace Medical Squadron, Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight, environmental health element chief scans a piece of metal for radioactive activity. The metal was from a 1952 plane crash that has been trapped in a glacier for 65 years; the flight scanned every piece of metal for radioactive activity to ensure the metal is safe to be disposed of.

PHOTO BY: Kyle Johnson
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