December 2017 – Page 2 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Cross stitching and books…

December 26, 2017

Antarctica is clearly trying to give us a vacation, or trying to screw up my guess of the total meteorite count at the end of the season which I totally intended to win. In either cases we are not pleased. We don't need a vacation and we certainly do...

Mentioning the Unmentionable

December 26, 2017

We are all human. Even in the Antarctic. We eat, we drink, we expend lots of energy. But what of those functions we don't typically mention? At home, with you, you likely have running water, flushing toilets, and sanitation. Here, we deal with ice, ice, and more ice. Making...

Humbling Wind Storm

December 26, 2017

The winds ramped up yesterday afternoon and continued through the night and into today. Our best guess is between the temperature and the wind, we're sitting somewhere around -70C with the windchill today - maybe lower. James bravely leaped a considerable snow drift to dig out our tent door...

Coldly going where no one has gone before…

December 25, 2017

Antarctica... the frozen frontier. These are the voyages of ANSMET Team Bravo. Our continuing mission, to recover possible remnants of strange new worlds, to seek out new irons and new chondrites... to coldly go where no one has gone before. Pan out. John begins singing the Next Generation theme...

Christmas Meteorites

December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to y'all!! We wish you a very merry, cozy, and happy holiday season. Who knew that I had to travel to the end of the world to experience my 1st white Christmas through and through!!!! And I'm extremely excited about it. We are having...

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas (eve)…

December 24, 2017

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas (eve)... With the poor lighting today making a trek to the blue ice not advisable, we put the finishing touches up on camp and made a short run to Nødtvedt Nunatak (and hiked to the top) to get a view of...

Beauty and the Beast – Part 2: the Beast

December 24, 2017

As I said before, every fairytale has heroes and villains, has beauty and beasts. Antarctica is no different. In fact, Antarctica is both Beauty and the Beast. We have been in the deep field for more than a week now and you totally deserve to hear the truth about...

Nødtvedt (Population: 4)

December 23, 2017

Hello from Nødtvedt! We were welcomed with blistering winds so loud you can hardly hear the person speaking on the other side of the tent. The pilots remarked they were likely 50 mph or so (and gusting on top of that). Today was a long day. John and Ioannis...

Inside a pingpong ball – whiteout conditions

December 23, 2017

Antarctica had a different idea of what we should do today then we did. The wind picked up again during the night and although we were ready to go by 9am we had to postpone our plans until noon in the hopes things would get better. 20knots windspeed is...

Beauty and the Beast: Part 1 – Beauty

December 23, 2017

Every fairytale has heroes and villains, has beauty and beasts. Antarctica is no different. In fact Antarctica is both Beauty and the Beast. Today I will tell you about the Beauty. Antarctica is the most beautiful and magical place I have ever visited, of all 7 continents I have been...

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