![Click to enlarge](img/th_6008.jpg) | Discussing cryostat alignment. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6009.jpg) | Mark, Marco and Gaelen at their computers. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6010.jpg) | Installing the transmitters. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6011.jpg) | Marie checks to see if the transmitters turn on. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6012.jpg) | C-clamp based mounting brackets for the helium transfer tube. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6013.jpg) | Solar arrays in their shipping bracket. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6014.jpg) | BLAST mostly assembled. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6015.jpg) | Out behind the payload bays, they're drilling a deep hole so that the ANITA team can place a fake source down in the ice to test their instrument. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6016.jpg) | Mark waves a dewar of nitrogen (formerly Chris's coffee mug) in front of the cryostat. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6017.jpg) | The bottom of the helium thumper (being held upside down). A helium thumper is a hollow metal tube which is inserted into a liquid helium dewar to check the level. The pressure oscilations which are set up inside the tube due to the warm metal coming into contact with the cold helium liquid and vapour above it change whether the bottom of the tube is submerged in liquid or not. These changes can be felt by an experienced cryologist who places his or her thumb over the top end of the tube, and then measuring at what position the change happens, corresponding to the level of liquid in the dewar. This one has just come out of a helium dewar, and its lower part is cold enough to condense the small bit of moisture in the highbay air. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6018.jpg) | Barth routes cables on the gondola. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6019.jpg) | Gaelen and Matt mount the motorised valves on top of the cryostat. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6020.jpg) | Weighing the gondola. |
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(6198x1017, 2894.18 kb) Whiteout conditions looking north to east from the highbay. If you could see it, Erebus would be at left.
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![Click to enlarge](img/th_6026.jpg) | Our gondola table, for aligning the coarse sensors outside. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6027.jpg) | A closer view of the table. It's not clear to me why someone has writen "goat" all over it. |
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(4544x1344, 2837.18 kb) Looking towards Hut Point Peninsula, where clearer skies can be seen.
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![Click to enlarge](img/th_6032.jpg) | "Shuttle Tex" drives us back to base in Ivan at the end of the day. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6033.jpg) | The view towards the back of the bus. The bus is now completely full. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6034.jpg) | Coming up to the transition in Ivan. |
![Click to play](img/th_6035.jpg) | Watching blue flags of the Willy Field fuel line pass by in Ivan on the ride out to LDB Camp. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6036.jpg) | Visibility is low today. Here's a picture of Mt. Erebus. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6037.jpg) | Here's Ob Hill. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_6038.jpg) | And this one is White Island. |