Mini Wadhwa, December 14, 2012, Mt. Bumstead Icefield Camp, Beardmore Region What makes one Antarctic blue icefield such a prolific source of new meteorites, while others are virtually devoid of such riches? If we are to answer this question, we need to understand why blue ice is found...
2012 / 2013 Field Season
Marianne Mader, Dec 14, 2012 Systematic Team, Mt. Mount Bumstead Icefield Camp, Beardmore Region
Yesterday we moved from our temporary camp at the Otway landing strip to our first ‘home away from home’ near Mount Bumstead (see photo of our camp). The weather has been beautiful - blue skies, low...
Hi, Ralph here, blogging from my home in beautiful Novelty, Ohio. In about an hour I'll go outside to look for Geminids. My wife thinks one hit the house last night, there was a big thump on the roof, but I missed it.
I wanted to let our...
Katie Joy, recon team, McMurdo, 13th December 2012
The recon team is due to deploy to the field tomorrow if the weather holds up for us. We have been kicking our heals in McMurdo Station since the main team left, and...
P { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } Joe Boyce, Recon Team, McMurdo, 13th December 2012 As you have just seen from Andrew's post - the ANSMET Systematic Search Team is now officially and completely deployed! The aircraft scheduling issues...
Andrew Beck, Otway Massif, December 12th, 2012
The final four members of the systematic team, along with about 12,000 lbs of gear, landed safely at Otway Massif at about 12:20 pm today. We were greeted with a balmy -20 C air temperature (a few degrees below 0 F) and 15-20...
The second half of the ANSMET Systematic Search Team is still here in McMurdo for at least another day or two. The Team and well-wishers had gather in the departure building at the time designated to leave for the airplane. The Team was even fully suited up, carry-on bags...
Tomoko Arai, 10th December 2012, McMurdo Station
Today four members of the systematic team flew out from the McMurdo base by a LC-130 aircraft, heading for Ottway Massif. The reconnaissance (recon) team heading for Klein Glacier was assigned to a back-up flight, in case that the weather condition of Ottway...
Mini Wadhwa, 9 December 10, 2012, McMurdo Station
Imagine being stranded in a small, drafty hut in one of the coldest, most desolate places on Earth, surviving from day to day for months on end on a diet of not much other than seal meat and the occasional cabin biscuit,...
Katie Joy, McMurdo station, 8th December 2012
Today the ANSMET team had a full science briefing for our future mission collecting meteorites on the boundary between the Transantarctic Mountains and the south polar plateau (see photo 1). Ralph Harvey has provided a previous post (see below) about the ice regions...