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“Goodbye”

Hi there - it's me, Minako. It will be my last blog post for the season. Brian, Jani and I flew back to Christchurch last Friday (well. we landed around 3am Saturday) with C-17. It was much shorter flight (5 hours flight instead of 8 hours using LC-130). It was...

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Back to McMurdo

This morning was brutal – minus 10F outside, wind 25 knots, blowing snow.  We expected one (or two is we get lucky) Twin Otter flights.  But there were five!  Miraculously the Twin Otter pilots worked extra hours to get all of us back to McMurdo.  John and Brian were the last to fly....

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30 knots!

Strong katabatic wind went up to 30 knots or so. Wind chill temperature dropped -40F. Well.. it was another tent day today. We spend whole morning hearing snow hitting our tent, blowing wind. Just hearing those make me so cold!! I spent whole morning crowed into my cozy sleeping...

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Back to work!

We got back in the field today after three straight days of tent! Basically ANSMET has a "tent day" when the weather does not permit us to search for meteorites- which means it is either completely overcast (sometimes called a whiteout) and we can't drive the skidoos because...

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