{"id":128,"date":"2012-12-07T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artscilabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=128"},"modified":"2014-11-13T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:01:56","slug":"128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2012\/12\/07\/128\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry Up and Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

“hurry up and wait” is an expression the 2012 ANSMET team is learning the true meaning of lately. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Today we finished packing the last of our supplies; frozen food that we will consume over the next 6 weeks (picture 1). \u00a0The packaged food was then marked for shipping and moved to a cargo staging area where it will remain until we deploy sometime\u00a0next week. \u00a0Prior to being moved to the staging area we measured both the mass and size of all of our packaged gear in order\u00a0to ensure that we stay under the approved weight limit, and also to assist in proper weight distribution on the aircraft. \u00a0Tomorrow we have a final meeting to discuss scientific topics, which Saturday’s blogger will\u00a0discuss\u00a0in more detail, but for the most part we all ready to go and now anxiously await our deployment to the field.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I think the second picture, which was taken during our shakedown a few days ago and shows a panoramic view of the McMurdo Ice Shelf with a snowy\u00a0cloud-drapped\u00a0Mount Erebus at back-center and a dense weather system moving in at right, personifies the mood of the team at this point. \u00a0We are anxious to get to the field locations we have “seen in the distance” and are patiently waiting to see if weather will alter our deployment plans. \u00a0As Marianne and Tom mentioned in previous blogs, weather did foil our plans on the day this picture was taken, but we are hoping our deployment is not\u00a0disrupted\u00a0by a similar system. \u00a0The panoramic picture also shows New Zealand’s Antarctic Scott Base, a small group of green huts along the shore in the foreground below the left flank of Erebus and seen in one of Tom’s pictures from earlier this week. \u00a0The ANSMET team visited Scott Base\u00a0last\u00a0night for American Night and got to learn a little bit about the history of the base, which was built in 1956.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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We are scheduled to “put in” to the field almost all of next week, with flights scheduled Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. \u00a0Given the amount of gear we need this season (~12 tons), both the systematic and\u00a0reconnaissance\u00a0teams will need two flights to fully deploy to the field, hence the four days of scheduled flights. \u00a0We will be using four US Air Force C130s to deploy to the field, two examples of which are shown in the third picture (cargo van included for scale). \u00a0<\/span>As mentioned previously, weather is the dictating factor from here on out, so\u00a0we wait patiently and hope that in seven days from now the\u00a02012 ANSMET team will be in the field collecting meteorites!<\/span><\/div>\n
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-Andrew Beck, \u00a07 Dec 2012, \u00a0in McMurdo<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“hurry up and wait” is an expression the 2012 ANSMET team is learning the true meaning of lately. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Today we finished packing the last of our supplies; frozen food that we will consume over the next 6 weeks (picture 1). \u00a0The packaged food was then marked for shipping and moved to a cargo staging area where it will remain until we deploy sometime\u00a0next week. \u00a0Prior to being moved to the staging area we measured both the mass and size of all of our packaged gear in order\u00a0to ensure that we stay under the approved weight limit,<\/p>\n

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