News – Page 26 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Team A: 46 and counting

December 18, 2017

We have reasonably well settled into our adventurous and minimalistic life style here in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica. Today was our 4th full day out here. It is cold here, with air temperatures -8F (-22C), but the wind makes it much much colder. We are starting to...

Eventful Day (Just not in the meteorite sense)

December 18, 2017

Today was a perfect Antarctic summer day. Not a single breeze and a clear sky minus some wispy cirrus clouds. We set off around 09:00 to search more of the moraines and some blue ice we had only partially visited prior. The morning did not provide any cosmic fruit...

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.

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