News – Page 33 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

The Hidden and the Found

January 25, 2017

We continue to wait for the weather to break over the Royal Society Range, which is between us and Elephant Moraine, so that we can get into the field. As you can see, the place is still pretty socked in, and the low pressure continues to linger. I imagine...

Still here…

January 25, 2017

It is likely we stay here for Christmas. Jani, Minako, Jim and I went for a walk today. It was very warm, not windy, high clouds, visibility at least 40 miles. – Alex Meshik from McMurdo.

Groundhog Day

January 25, 2017

I'll bet ours is not the first ANSMET blog entry with this title... When you're in Antarctica, you can expect to get all gussied up and ready to fly, and then be left at the doorstop, day after day. This was the first day we were all really expecting...

Discovery Hut Tour

January 25, 2017

Hi everyone. It's Minako. Today was exciting Sunday here. We had a special tour of Discovery Hut, built during the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904. Now The hut has been designated a Historic Site or Monument.Once you enter the hut, your nose get stung from strong animal smell. There is...

Condition 2

January 25, 2017

The alternate title for this blog entry is "The Waiting Game". We are in that state where we get together for an early breakfast, hopefully checking the flight manifest screens and typically seeing our flights up there (yeay!), but then peering around the wall at the outside weather and...

RPH In Sydney

December 15, 2016

Hi all, just a quick note since I'm in Sydney and have 4 hours to kill. Duck and I sat at Willy field until 1 pm yesterday while the crew waited for the ground fog to burn off. Would have been awful but Some kind souls brought us pizza...

We are ready to go (again)

January 25, 2017

Our cargo is now reconfigured for one 6-person team and we are ready to go to the EET camp. We need seven Twin Otter flights to transfer our team, all our gears and supplies, a small fraction of which is shown in the picture. – Alex from McMurdo.

Baaack in the cargo yard agaiiinnn…

December 15, 2016

Now that we're pretty officially headed for Elephant Moraine, which is accessible from McMurdo by Twin Otter, we got to see all our gear again, get it out of the big triwalls, weigh it, measure it, and put it back into the cargo stream. It was satisfying to get...

Omnipotent Antarctic Gods (cue The Rolling Stones: “Under my Thumb”

January 25, 2017

That the Antarctic Gods control the weather here is known to all Antarctic travelers. What is less appreciated is that the gods also control activities that humans mistakenly think are under their control. Take for example, cashes of aviation fuel out at Shackleton Glacier camp. Our plans to fly...

E is for Elephant Moraine

December 15, 2016

After 24 hours of wondering, proposing, and negotiating (in both the maneuvering and bargaining senses) we have a new plan. We're sending our field team of 6 to Elephant Moraine. There's a lot of work associated with this switch- basically all the work that went into organizing our cargo for Shackleton...

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