{"id":4684,"date":"2024-01-25T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:01:10","slug":"a-short-update-on-resupply-flights-and-meteorites-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2024\/01\/25\/a-short-update-on-resupply-flights-and-meteorites-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A short update on resupply flights and meteorites coming home&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4685\" style=\"width: 794px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4685\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4685 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2024\/01\/25084409\/ice-pier-webcam-still-25jan24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><em>The McMurdo ice pier at about 2:45 am Friday (McMurdo time) as seen on USAPs webcam of the site. The Military Sealift Command chartered ship <strong>MV Ocean Gladiator<\/strong> arrived there on Saturday and is in the middle of offloading over 400 pieces of cargo, many in standard shipping containers. \u00a0The image above is a screen-capture, so I hope you&#8217;re not waiting for it to update- \u00a0 the live webcam is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usap.gov\/videoclipsandmaps\/mcmwebcam.cfm\">\u00a0(available here)<\/a>. <\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard directly from the field party in several days, \u00a0but I&#8217;m not worried about them; \u00a0contacts in McMurdo relay that all is well and that the mid-season (more like 5\/6th of the season) resupply visit by a Twin Otter took place two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to bringing the team a little bit of supplies and a few freshies, \u00a0the flight brought out a lot of \u00a0gear, empty fuel containers and trash. \u00a0 \u00a0Also on board the return flight to McMurdo was a cooler with 181 meteorite specimens from Davis-Ward. The Science Cargo folks added several specimens found by COLDEX at Allan Hills and then locked it up and stowed it safely away in a freezer container. \u00a0Science Cargo assured me that those specimens are on schedule to \u00a0make it onto the cargo ship when it heads north. \u00a0 Now we wait to see whether any more flights from Davis-Ward happen before the final moments of ship loading take place.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Ralph, in foggy, \u00a0unseasonably warm Cleveland Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard directly from the field party in several days, \u00a0but I&#8217;m not worried about them; \u00a0contacts in McMurdo relay that all is well and that the mid-season (more like 5\/6th of the season) resupply visit by a Twin Otter took place two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to bringing the team a little bit of supplies and a few freshies, \u00a0the flight brought out a lot of \u00a0gear, empty fuel containers and trash. \u00a0 \u00a0Also on board the return flight to McMurdo was a cooler with 181 meteorite specimens from Davis-Ward. The Science Cargo folks added several specimens found by COLDEX at Allan Hills and then locked it up and stowed it safely away in a freezer container. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2024\/01\/25\/a-short-update-on-resupply-flights-and-meteorites-coming-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A short update on resupply flights and meteorites coming home&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":4685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2024\/01\/25084409\/ice-pier-webcam-still-25jan24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684"}],"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=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}