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Back on track
It was the best of sites…it was the worst of sites. Looking past the obstacles of Site 2 (the lost firn augur and the very very short first flight of the UAV), the team completed its scientific work yesterday and began rolling towards the next science stop.
Location: 87° 09’ S, 8° 33’ E
Weather: Fine, - 20 deg C, wind 15 kts
The next stop will be at the first of the series of recently discovered sub-glacial lakes, Recovery Lake D. Successes at Site 2 far outweighed the mishaps, and we are now carrying over 50 meters of core for various analyses, with all radars functioning again, and gravity and spectrometer measurements in the notebooks. We resolved to make good progress towards the next site and still keep a ‘normal’ schedule (6 am to 8 pm from wake-up to dinner). Today we managed to do nearly 100 km, our best by far since South Pole. Ruler-straight tracks crossed this high plateau snow on a brilliantly clear and calm summer day in Antarctica (photo). Sembla tows ‘The Rock’, our nickname for the radar hut, seen in the middle distance.
Straight lines across the plateau. Photo: Ted Scambos
