Picture Gallery for Wed 2006-11-01 19:44:44 UTC

	Midnight sun over the Ross Ice Shelf.
	Riding Ivan the Terra Bus to Willy Field.
	The view from the Willy Field Road.
	The view from the Willy Field Road.
	Scott Base (New Zealand) in the foreground, the with Willy Field buildings on the ice shelf beyond.
	Scott Base (New Zealand) in the foreground, the with Willy Field buildings on the ice shelf beyond.
	Scott Base.
	Scott Base.
	Pressure Ridges.
	Riding Ivan the Terra Bus.
	Field Training Camp on the ice shelf where Chris is attending Snow School.
	Heading out to Willy Field. The flags demark the road and the pipelines.
	The LDB facilities at Willy Field. We're in Payload Bay two, the second of the large buildings. The big vehicle in the foreground is The Boss, the Antarctic launch vehicle.
	Enzo with the ACS.
	Under the mezzanine.
	Water bottles labelled for identification.
	Marie works on the DAS.
	Nick mounts the gyroscopes.
	The guts of the ACS power module.
(14224x1328, 9155.14 kb) A 360 degree panorama of the LDB camp. The cut is east of north, in the middle of Mount Erebus (which is obscured by cloud). Starting from left, we have: The two porches for the Payload buildings, full of stuff. They aren't in front of the buildings like they should be because the snow isn't properly prepared yet. The spool trailer One of the long drops (designated Women) Payload Bay 2, where we are. Payload Bay 1 (with door open), where Anita and SBI are. They yellow things in front are shipping containers. The rigging building, where the flight train is prepared. The Boss (the launch vehicle) The Telemetry (TM) building The Mechanical building, which has the non-working plumbed bathroom The site generator (blue), a converted shipping container The galley (the semicircular tent) Various support vehicles In the distance, the control tower for Willy Field airstrip, which will be opened in December The pig barn, the old integration facility The road back to town. In the foreground, another long drop, then some waste bins beyond, and then the third long drop. Finally, on the right is the snow berm, which is used for storage.
	BLAST coming together.
	Mark and Marie in Cryo Corner.
	A close-up of the Cryo breakout box.
	One of the highbay tables.
	LDB electronics, including the SIP.
	The Galley out at Willy Field.
	Mark and Matt disassemble the optics box.
	The three bolometer arrays in the optics box.
	A holographic laser shining on the lyot stop inside the optics box.
	A holographic laser shining on the lyot stop (the round mirror).
	The holographic laser on mirror three.
	The holographic laser on mirror five. Mirror four is the lyot stop, which has a hole in the middle, so the central dot seen in mirror three is now gone.
	The DAS power module.
	The receiver power module on the bench. The first step with the electronics in the field is always to open up the power modules and make sure they still work.
	A close up of some latching relays in the ACS power module. I took this picture to get the part number to look up the datasheet.
	Coat and ECW gear storage upstairs in the mezzanine.
	The long drop. The plumbing out here isn't working yet.
	Mount Erebus behind a few clouds. Note the steam plume coming from this active volcano.
	Working on BLAST.
	XMMSfoo is up and running.
	Riding back to base in Ivan along the snow road.
	Me on the bus.
	A view across the shelf of the mountains.
	A view across the shelf of the mountains.
	Like a lot of stuff around here, Ivan the Terra Bus was manufactured in Canada.
	Approaching the snow-rock transition on the road as we climb back up onto Ross Island.
	Willy Field beyond the pressure ridges.
	Coming back through Scott Base.
	Rush-hour traffic on the Willy Field road.
	Scott Base again.
	Coming back into town.
	The end of the line: Derelict Junction outside the dorms.
	Enzo's half of the room.
	My half of the room; Enzo seems to be a bit neater.
	Our room: number 211.
	The penguin talk.
	The BLAST master plan.
	Canadian Bacon, eh
	Enzo waiting at Derelict Junction for the bus.
	The sign at the entrance to Scott Base, Capital of the Ross Dependency.
	Another shot of the Pressure Ridges, which are getting more pronounced.
	Scot Base on the shore.
	Nick on the bus.