{"id":3009,"date":"2017-12-06T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:30:43","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2017\/12\/06\/once-upon-a-time-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time in Antarctica…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the van on the way back from the Scott Base Pressure Ridge Tour to McMurdo. Back seat (from image perspective): James Day (L), Scott VanBommel (R), Front Seats: Barbara Cohen (R), Juliane Gross (M), Ioannis Baziotis (L).<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Today, is my turn to write down a few words about life here in the most cold, dry, and windiest places on Earth, A place, of spectacular beauty, a place where you hear the silence and that lets you keep calm from the alternate decibels of Jim, James and Scott (probably and mine, but when I sleep I cannot hear myself) concert in the dorm. It is really awesome experience, for a Mediterranean guy, and certainly a Greek one like me, to live the DREAM of participating in this ANSMET mission. A mission, dedicated to recovering meteorites from ANTARCTICA, that has brought to the NEW (SCIENTIFIC) WORLD around 22,000 meteorites (40% of the overall recovered from earth). I am pleased to say, that 1 meteorite, out of roughly 67,000, is verfied from Greece (Seres meteorite, a 1818 fall of H4 ordinary chondrite).<\/p>\n

From a place like this, in McMurdo station, you are able to see all the different aspects of what a human can do, within just few hours. Preparing gear for the cargo, sleeping in the dorms, having breakfast at a table with at least 5 different nationalities, playing trivia as the \u201cVenusuites\u201d, hiking Observation Hill, inspecting the sea below 2 m of ice, cycling over the muddy or icy \u201croads\u201d around McMurdo, visiting Hutpoint, and observing the seals sliding over the ice like the windsurfers in Australia are just a few of the experiences over the past few days – I\u00a0am really grateful to be part of this great team.<\/span><\/p>\n

-posted by\u00a0Ioannis Baziotis<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Note from rph: \u00a0In case you’re wondering why the team suddenly seems to have some free time, \u00a0it’s typical. We have to get 100% of our cargo (everything but a few hand-carry items) into McMurdo’s system 2-3 days before any scheduled flight. The result is we pretty much have to be ready to fly, and then we wait two days before our put-in to the field. \u00a0There’s some things to do, like planning for the actual day of the put-in and for the end-of-season, and some refreshers on the science mission, and some nervous re-packing of hand-carry and second-guessing of our cargo lists, \u00a0but otherwise it is a full-blown “hurry up and wait” scenario. \u00a0Here’s hoping the wait really is just a few days and not longer.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Today, is my turn to write down a few words about life here in the most cold, dry, and windiest places on Earth, A place, of spectacular beauty, a place where you hear the silence and that lets you keep calm from the alternate decibels of Jim, James and Scott (probably and mine, but when I sleep I cannot hear myself) concert in the dorm. It is really awesome experience, for a Mediterranean guy, and certainly a Greek one like me, to live the DREAM of participating in this ANSMET mission. A mission, dedicated to recovering meteorites from ANTARCTICA, that has brought to the NEW (SCIENTIFIC) WORLD around 22,000 meteorites (40% of the overall recovered from earth).<\/p>\n

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