The ANSMET team would like to take a few minutes to say hello to Phineas and his prekindergarten class at Montessori Country Day in Houston Texas. We’re pretty much all packed up and ready to head out into the field to start collecting meteorites. All we need at this point is the plane to take us out there.

The group picture below shows us the in the aquarium labs at McMurdo, getting to see (and touch) the special “touch tank” full of local Antarctic animals! We have also included two pictures from the top of Observation Hill, a small hill near McMurdo Base. In one picture you can see McMurdo Station, which is the largest base in all of Antarctica. The other picture shows two of the 4 large volcanoes that make up Ross Island (where McMurdo Station is located), Mt. Erebus on the left and Mt. Terror on the right. Mt Erebus is nearly 2 ½ miles tall, and is the southernmost active volcano in the world. There is a lake of lava (liquid rock) in it right now!

– Posted by Ryan Zeigler, McMurdo Station Antarctica, Thursday Dec 11 2014