EBEX in Flight
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Recovery Epilogue

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Talking with a few people reminded me that I never updated the blog after the recovery. We were crazy busy packing up after we came back fro...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Day 7, November 10, 2013 -- Heading out tomorrow?

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It's been a pretty uneventful ~week since the last post. Michele and I made it down to McMurdo on Wednesday and have spent the time sinc...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Day 1, November 4, 2013 -- ...aaaaand we're back!

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That's right folks, it's time for another edition of EBEX in Flight (though as you'll see, the name is a bit of a misnomer)! S...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Day 109, Februay 11, 2013 -- Leaving on a jet plane

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This update is a bit delayed, sorry about that! The rest of the EBEX team (Michele, Chappy, Joy, and myself) left McMurdo on Feb. 11th. We...
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Friday, February 8, 2013

Days 101-107, February 3-9, 2012 -- Wrapping up

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Well, we're basically done here. We ended up not getting another recovery flight out to the payload, which means the cryostat and gond...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Day 100, February 2, 2013 -- Recovery Tales, Part 1

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After much waiting, we finally got out to the payload today. We were picked up in the morning at the LDB site by the Kenn Borek Air crew f...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Day 92, January 24, 2012 -- The EBEX has landed.

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The EBEX flight was terminated at approximately 11:30AM GMT on January 23rd, or roughly 12:30AM on January 24th local McMurdo (NZ) time. I a...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Days 85-88, January 17-20th, 2013 -- McMurdo Life

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Again, the past few days, more of the same. The balloon has now come most of the way around the continent, at about longitude -163 at the ti...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Days 81-84 recap, January 13-16, 2013 -- Round and round she goes

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EBEX continues on its (very) roughly circular path about the South Pole. Based on the current velocity of about 16-17 degrees of longitud...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Day 80, January 12, 2013 -- Leaving on a turboprop plane

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This morning, Kyle, Kevin, Kate, and Franky departed McMurdo for their respective homes. Actually, they were on two different LC-130 flights...
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