| BLAST with the chin attached to the wings. |
| BLAST with the chin attached to the wings. |
| BLAST with the chin attached to the wings. |
| A lot of recycling waiting to be returned to Kiruna. |
| Snow again. Radar Hill can't be seen. |
| Barth and Marie install the (green) flight batteries. |
| Radar Hill in the fog after the snow has finished. |
| Fog lifting. |
| Radar Hill painted with snow, again. |
| Hercules with it's boom extended. |
| One of the solar arrays looking out the door. |
| This is what passes for greenery in the highbay. |
| Mark checks the alignment of the telescope from up high. The red dot above him is from a laser mounted on the back of the secondary. |
| Do Not Bend!! Strange instructions on a burly unbendable cardboard tube. |
| Mark checking the telescope alignment. |
| Barth makes a nitrogen chopper. |
| Mark uses the nitrogen chopper to test the mirror. |
| The gate on the road up to Keops. |
| The Keops sign. |
| Ed writes his name in the snow. |
| The receiver on the top of Keops that will be listening to BLAST when the telescope is up in the air. |
| Gaelen on top of the world. |
| Looking down on Radar Hill. The balloon launch facility is on the far side of the hill. Behind the left edge of the hill, you can see the red and white tower of the rocket launch pad. |
| Ed takes a short break in the snow. |
| Gaelen finds a large snowball. |
| Coming back. |
| Marie's density is less than Gaelen's. |
| Esrange Photometer. |
| Stop. No taking pictures of this sign. |
| A large satellite dish part way down Keops Hill. |
| The same dish, with Barth and Ed for scale. |
| Looking up at the receiver. |
| Blowing off helium. Because of the cost, we try to reclaim all the liquid helium we can. So the plan here is to pour the helium back into the large dewar. |
| Nitrogen on the other hand is free, so it just gets evaporated. Here it is, spewing out of the cryostat. |
| Nitrogen boiling on the floor. When this happens, the nitrogen droplets have a tendency to collect all the dirt that they encounter. |
| A liquid nitrogen waterfall. |
| A liquid nitrogen waterfall. |
| The concrete has cooled enough that a puddle is thinking of forming. |
| Plumes of water vapour from the nitrogen blow off. |
| Plumes of water vapour from the nitrogen blow off. |
| A liquid helium "flame". |
| A liquid helium "flame". |
| Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined. |
| Gaelen and Jeff begin disassembling the sun shields in order to extract the cryostat. |