As of this writing, all ANSMET personnel have left Antarctica and are on their way home via Christchurch, NZ. I will put together a post to wrap-up the season sometime in about a week, so stay tuned….. Ralph… Read more »
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McMurdo Activities
Katie Joy, McMurdo Station, 26th January 2013 In the last few days the ANSMET systematic team’s cargo was returned from Ottway Massif. The team have been cleaning up and inventorying gear, and packing up equipment in preparation for… Read more »
Short update from da boss…..
- Ralph Harvey, Case Western Reserve U. this just in, circa 1:20 pm east coast US time. Jim, Andrew and Rob are finally back in McMurdo after several days stuck at Otway….. And a couple of people (Mini and… Read more »
Ice-tronauts
Stan Love McMurdo Station, Antarctica 2013 January 23 “If you’ve done ANSMET, you’ve done long duration space flight.” – Don Pettit, ANSMET veteran and three-time Space Shuttle and International Space Station crew member. A future human mission to Mars will… Read more »
back in town
Katie Joy, Recon team, 23rd January 2013 The ANSMETrecon team left South Pole on the 21st Jan (see photo of the LC-130 plane that transported us), are now back in McMurdo. We are currently waiting for our cargo to… Read more »
Recon team – A brief stay at the South Pole
Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 20th January, 2013, the South Pole Station Last night we enjoyed sleeping in an actual bed, not in a sleeping bag, in the air-conditioned room. After having Sunday brunch, we packed cargo outside the building of… Read more »
The final few days at Otway
Andrew Beck, G-058, Sunday January 21st, Otway Massif, Antarctica Four of the G-058 team members were picked up by LC-130 last Friday and are currently in McMurdo Station. The LC-130′s are big, but they aren’t big enough to get the… Read more »
Out of the field and at South Pole Station
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 19th January, 2012, SOUTH POLE Hello. Hope you are well. The ANSMET recon team have escaped 13 straight tent days and the bad weather of Szabo Bluff, and are currently all safely housed at the USAP… Read more »
Recon team – The twentieth tent day
Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 18th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff The end of the Antarctic summer season is approaching, but the weather today was still not unfortunately good enough for us to get back to the McMurdo. We need to fly… Read more »
Recon team – Blue sky for a few hours
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 17th January 2013, Szabo Bluff ‘Tent day 11, in the Big-ANSMET house…’. If someone could please vote us out of the field that would be great – just dial ‘SEND-LC130′ and press 1 for Joe, 2… Read more »