News – Page 30 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Back to McMurdo

January 20, 2017

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....

Time for return flights

January 25, 2017

It was windy this morning. We couldn't get out for searching more meteorites.. Instead, the first twin otter showed up to our camp site early this afternoon. Yes, it is time to think about our return flights. We need total of 6 twin otter flights. For the first one,...

“Elephant Moraine Time”

January 25, 2017

We used time today like we were living on another planet - one with a day more like 30 hours long. First, we woke to the familiar hiss of snow sand on the back of the tent, and at this point we're able to say, oh, it's about 22...

30 knots!

January 25, 2017

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...

Back to work!

January 25, 2017

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...

Tent day report No.3

January 25, 2017

Hi everyone - we had another tent day today. I woke up at 7am, hoping blue sky with mild wind. I got out after getting morning hot chocolate and realized that it's still so gray out there with snow blowing.. So I will summarize our day. Our two...

Elvish footprints

January 25, 2017

...from today's blogSent from Iridium Mail & Web.

The Devils Wear Prana

January 25, 2017

We had another tent day today - this time winds are up at mid-high 20s (knots) and temps a little below zero. It's so beautiful to look at all the wind forms around camp, from the large, soft dunes with ever forming ripples, to the hardening sastrugi between the...

Tent Day

January 25, 2017

Tent dayThis morning the outside temperature was -9F, ~ 12 knots wind and blowing snow. These condition forced us to spent most of the day in the tents reading, listening audiobooks, chatting and napping. At 6 pm John and I went out for a dinner at Jani’s and...

All day search!

January 25, 2017

Today was our first "full day search" day of the season. It means we went out all day long, ate lunch out on the ice field. It was pretty cold and windy this morning. It was around -7F when we left our camp. Plus around 15 knots...

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