December 2017 – Page 4 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Slow Day Meteorite Hunting

December 17, 2017

Team B recovered its first meteorite today! After not much to be found on a quick scouting trip yesterday, it felt good to get one flagged today. It is a tough area for hunting meteorites. There are lots of terrestrial rocks littering the blue ice and there is quite...

(B) Setup Complete!

December 16, 2017

Today was our first full day at Mt. Wisting. We finished setting up camp and getting our skidoos ready. After lunch we traversed some blue ice and walked a moraine but there were only meteorwrongs from what we could see. It was a very beneficial exercise especially for both...

Team B arrives at Mt. Wisting

December 15, 2017

Warm wishes from Mt. Wisting! Team B was successfully put in today with four Twin Otter flights. It was a beautiful day continent-wide but the winds picked up as the day went on. We arrived at the field site around 16:30. The winds were pushing 20 KTs and it made...

Team A: First full day in the field

December 15, 2017

Today was our first full day in the field. We were deployed out yesterday and arrived in the deep field around 11:30am. For the rest of the day we we set up our tents and sorted bags, food boxes and science equipment. Our camp is composed of 4 Scott...

(B) Team A has Deployed!

December 14, 2017

Happy Thursday! Team A (Jim, Brian, Barb, Juliane) have been deployed! They boarded on their fifth and final Twin Otter flight (third today), making their way to Mt. Cecily where they'll spend the next six weeks. We thought they might have needed a sixth flight, but, in addition to being...

A phone call from Shackleton Glacier Camp

December 13, 2017

I got a call from Jim Karner at Shackleton camp a little while ago and thought I'd share what I learned. First, everyone is doing great, at Shackleton, and Team A's transition up to the Mts. Emily, Cecily and Raymond area (the Grosvenor Mts) is well underway. They've sent three...

First Day at Shackleton

December 13, 2017

Greetings from Shackleton! A joint blog post today from both Juliane and Scott, perhaps the final joint post before Team A gets deployed to their field site tomorrow (hopefully). To update last night's brief post, we left Williams Field at McMurdo and were wheels/skis up on our third take-off attempt -...

Shackleton Arrival!

December 12, 2017

We touched down at Shackleton Glacier Camp at 21:30 local. All 8 of us have retired to our tents in Tent City for the night and eagerly await tomorrow's morning briefing. More to come tomorrow, night all! Posted by Scott from Tent City on 2017-12-12 at 23:15.

Volunteer-Day and maybe Fly-Day!

December 12, 2017

Today was another of these waiting-game days just like yesterday. 5:00am wake up time, flight delayed for 3 hours, so we all went back to sleep till 8am. Then our flight was switched over to a back-up flight, like yesterday, so hopes were low to get out today. If...

‘Twas(n’t) the night before Shackleton…

December 10, 2017

'Twas the night before Shackleton, when all thro' McMurdo, Not a creature was stirring, even with the Building 155 ANSMET dorm nightly concerto; The big reds were hung by the door with care, In hopes they'd soon experience even colder air; It was delayed at first then ultimately not meant to be, As the...

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