News – Page 31 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Take a little trip, take a little trip…

January 8, 2017

Ok, it's getting a little ridiculous- we just can't seem to get our last two put-in flights to come to EET! It was actually beautiful weather today; sunny, blue skies, low wind, but apparently there was some cloud deck between here and McMurdo that the pilots couldn't fly through...

Christmas montage!

January 25, 2017

From Alex. :) Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.

Our energy sources

January 25, 2017

Today was not too exciting day. Our flight got cancelled due to weather, so we went out 3.5 miles away and picked 5 of old fuel drums up and came back. Hope weather corporate tomorrow, so we get our ski-doo and rest of gears in. So, I decided showing...

White Christmas

January 25, 2017

Today, on January 5, we were all finally together in the field, we were all well, and we couldn't go out and work, so we had Christmas! We cooked some tasty pizzas using the ingredients we had on hand, since only about half of our food boxes are out...

Collecting Meteorites Now!

January 25, 2017

Today was another exciting day (Am I saying that every day perhaps?..). We didn't get any flight in, so we work hard all day long. In the morning, we went out to old camp site (1996) where old fuel drums were buried. We dig those drums and brought...

Group pic!

January 25, 2017

Here's one more pic from today, we're just so happy to be all together again!

Reunited!

January 25, 2017

Today was another exciting day. In the morning, it was still gray here. As we expected, we got weather delay. After a couple hours of strong wind, it became completely blue sky! Then shortly after lunch, twin otter showed up! Yes, Jim and Alex finally made...

Live From The Field

January 25, 2017

Cache Treasures

January 25, 2017

It was gray here today, which always makes it a little spooky and hard to see what you're walking or driving over. That's right - driving - we got onto the skidoos today and went for a ride! We rode out to an old Elephant Moraine camp cache to...

Happy New Year!!

January 25, 2017

Happy New Year from the field! We went out to do more foot search today. We walked "Meteorite City" area and found 7 more meteorites. So beautiful walking on blue ice area (picture attached). Cracks, volcano ash band, a lot of interesting texture on ice and snow... So happy...

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