“The last two days have been pretty nice weather-wise, and very productive.” “We have replaced all of the tents lost to the storm and tomorrow we will complete the camp […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 9 November 2018: Better Weather – For Now
“The weather improved today with sunshine and light winds greeting us this morning, a nice change of pace from the constant pounding we have had the last few days.” “Late […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 7 November 2018: Repairing Heavy Damage
“We are still recovering from the damaging winds that trashed the camp, but as soon as things calm down we will get busy and pull it all back together.” “The […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 6 November 2018: Wind Damage
“Our winds have continued unabated likely hitting 40-50 m/s at times.” “We did lose four of our tents yesterday despite our best efforts to save them – the winds were […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 5 November 2018: Strong Winds at Lake Untersee
“Just after getting a couple of tents set up today, the winds started pounding us with 60 knot gusts, and probably increasing this evening to what are likely 75-80 knot […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 4 November 2018: Productive Day at Lake Untersee
“Today was a pretty productive day. We turned in early yesterday, everyone was pretty tired from the traverse the day before followed by a day of getting two more tents […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 2 November 2018: Arrived at Lake Untersee
Update from Dale Andersen via Garmin inReach: Nov 2, 20182:56:30 PM: “Arrived Untersee 3pm UTC, all ok first tent up” Larger image Speed: 0.00 km/hElevation: 590.86 m Lat: -71.332995 Lon: […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 30 October 2018: Preparing For The Traverse
We arrived at the Novolazarevskaya ice runway Thursday evening via the ALCI chartered IL-76 about 8pm without incident, it is very nice to be back here again. We are early […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 25 October 2018: Arrived At Novolazarevskaya
InSight Message from Dale Andersen: “We landed at Novolazarevskaya’s ice runway at 8:30 UTC. All good now busy unloading cargo.”
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 24 October 2018: Waiting In Cape Town
We arrived in Cape Town last Thursday night, and the team spent the weekend adjusting to the new time zone, dealing with a few last minute errands and attending a […]