This Friday the remainder of the 2013-2014 ANSMET field team begins their journey southward to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. John and Jim are already underway, while the rest, a combination of seasoned veterans and newbies, are getting ready to travel.
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As I write this, John and Jim should be waking up on their first day in McMurdo, Antarctica. The rest of the team is gearing up for the same trip themselves, with most people leaving the US the day after Thanksgiving.
In early October we published a preview of...
For the 2013-2014 field season, ANSMET is planning a return to the Miller Range icefields. Last visited in 2011-2012, these icefields have been visited six times previously, yielding over 2300 specimens and including many rare types such as martian and lunar meteorites. There are three large blue ice areas...
Talk about poorly kept promises! The 2012-2013 field season has been over for more than 6 months and today, Long ago I said I'd post a summary of the results from that season, and finally, here it is.
We definitely had a successful season, but not quite what the...
As of this writing, all ANSMET personnel have left Antarctica and are on their way home via Christchurch, NZ. I will put together a post to wrap-up the season sometime in about a week, so stay tuned.....
Ralph Harvey, PI of ANSMET, Case Western Reserve University.
Katie Joy, McMurdo Station, 26th January 2013
In the last few days the ANSMET systematic team’s cargo was returned from Ottway Massif. The team have been cleaning up and inventorying gear, and packing up equipment in preparation for the next field season. Five members – Tomoko, Joe, Marianne, Rob and Andrew...
- Ralph Harvey, Case Western Reserve U.
this just in, circa 1:20 pm east coast US time. Jim, Andrew and Rob are finally back in McMurdo after several days stuck at Otway..... And a couple of people (Mini and Tom) are already in Christchurch! The team in wending their...
Stan Love
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
2013 January 23
"If you've done ANSMET, you've done long duration space flight."
-- Don Pettit, ANSMET veteran and three-time Space Shuttle and International Space Station crew member.
A future human mission to Mars will be tough for the crew. They will be separated from friends, family, and the...
Katie Joy, Recon team, 23rd January 2013
The ANSMETrecon team left South Pole on the 21st Jan (see photo of the LC-130 plane that transported us), are now back in McMurdo. We are currently waiting for our cargo to be delivered from the South Pole and from the field site at the...
Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 20th January, 2013, the South Pole Station
Last night we enjoyed sleeping in an actual bed, not in a sleeping bag, in the air-conditioned room. After having Sunday brunch, we packed cargo outside the building of the South Pole station to prepare for the planned move...