Tomoko Arai, 21th December, 2012, South Graves Glacier

We have had very bad weather with temperature of -25degC and strong wind of 20-30 knots both yesterday and today. We are close to the South Pole (87 degree south latitude), and are in the middle of the strong wind, the so-called Katabatic wind, which comes from the South Pole plateau towards the coast. The bad weather allowed us to go out to search for meteorites only for a couple of hours. One meteorite was found yesterday, and another today. Both are just a few cm across with a dark fusion crust. Hopefully, the weather will get better and we will go out to find more and larger meteorites tomorrow!

Recon team searching North Graves