{"id":3896,"date":"2020-01-01T04:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2020-01-01T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:47:25","slug":"wheres-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2020\/01\/01\/wheres-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s the Ice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3897\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2020\/01\/01043903\/image1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3897\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3897 \" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2020\/01\/01043903\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>View from a Davis Ward Nunatak we climbed; the curved rock border is the terminal moraine (a pile of rocks pushed by a glacier) of a glacial feature ANSMET calls the \u201cbig tongue\u201d. Hundreds of meteorites were found in the \u201cbig tongue\u201d in past ANSMET seasons. Today it was just white, but usually the area is all blue ice.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the past few days, it has been snowing in the Davis Ward region. The beautiful glittering ice crystals floating gracefully past us, though, eventually fall and cover rocks laying on the ground. This is a big problem for us, because it is very difficult to look for meteorites when you cannot see them!<br \/>\nToday we hiked and explored a nearby mountain top exposed above the glacier (Nunatak), to gain a broader perspective of our meteorite-hunting territory and home for the next 3-4 weeks. When looking at the glacial valley below us (pictured here), Johnny asked, \u201cwhere\u2019s the ice?\u201d Usually, the area is covered in blue ice, prime meteorite-hunting terrain, but today all we saw was a white blanket. We are hopeful that the white blanket of snow (only a few centimeters) will soon be blown away by some wind.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Emilie from snowy Davis Ward, Antarctica<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, it has been snowing in the Davis Ward region. The beautiful glittering ice crystals floating gracefully past us, though, eventually fall and cover rocks laying on the ground. This is a big problem for us, because it is very difficult to look for meteorites when you cannot see them!<br \/>\nToday we hiked and explored a nearby mountain top exposed above the glacier (Nunatak), to gain a broader perspective of our meteorite-hunting territory and home for the next 3-4 weeks. When looking at the glacial valley below us (pictured here), Johnny asked, \u201cwhere\u2019s the ice?\u201d Usually,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2020\/01\/01\/wheres-the-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where\u2019s the Ice!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":3897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2020\/01\/01043903\/image1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896"}],"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=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}