{"id":3791,"date":"2019-12-06T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T12:53:53","slug":"analog-site-meteorite-hunting-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2019\/12\/06\/analog-site-meteorite-hunting-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog site: meteorite hunting practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3792\" style=\"width: 3034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3792\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3792 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273-1170x1560.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>The girls at Leithfield Beach<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Due to runway repairs, we&#8217;ve been waiting in Christchurch before heading to Antarctica. With our free time, we found a beach that may be similar to the moraine beach we will encounter at Davis-Ward! Leithfield Beach was very nicely size-sorted, with some areas of densely-packed pebbles, and allowed us to practice our meteorite hunting skills. Although our goal of finding the perfect skipping stones was different than it will be in Antarctica, the analog site offered us a glimpse into our future field activities. We&#8217;re anxiously waiting to start our real work and looking forward to our scheduled flight to Antarctica tomorrow.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3793\" style=\"width: 1692px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3793\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3793 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1682\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM.png 1682w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM-600x399.png 600w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM-1170x778.png 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1682px) 100vw, 1682px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Analog meteorite-hunting terrain<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>-Posted by Emilie Dunham while re-packing for the hundredth time<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014209\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-06-at-7.24.07-PM.png\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to runway repairs, we&#8217;ve been waiting in Christchurch before heading to Antarctica. With our free time, we found a beach that may be similar to the moraine beach we will encounter at Davis-Ward! Leithfield Beach was very nicely size-sorted, with some areas of densely-packed pebbles, and allowed us to practice our meteorite hunting skills. Although our goal of finding the perfect skipping stones was different than it will be in Antarctica, the analog site offered us a glimpse into our future field activities. We&#8217;re anxiously waiting to start our real work and looking forward to our scheduled flight to Antarctica tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2019\/12\/06\/analog-site-meteorite-hunting-practice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Analog site: meteorite hunting practice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":3792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2019\/12\/06014206\/IMG_0273.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}