Picture Gallery for Wed 2011-01-12 19:45:57 UTC

	BICEP2 over at DSL.
	Sky-light in MAPO. There was varnishing going on downstairs, and we were starting to get rather mellow, so Chris figured it was a good idea to open the roof hatch to get some ventilation.
	A BLASTbus crate.
	Colin, Jamie, Chin-Lin, and Grant work on the focal plane.
	Colin, Jamie, Chin-Lin, and Grant work on the focal plane.
	The table that was being varnished. I guess it's ugly?
	From now on, all crates should be triangular.
	Destination Alpha (that is the main entrance) at the Elevated Station.
	Some snow shoving.
	Another day, another PAX (passenger) flight.
	Jon (who we had to leave in MacTown for a week) finally arrives.
	Another shot of BICEP2.
	Ice mist obscures Station.
	An MCE bias card. (I took this picture so I didn't have to remember the revision number.
	Justus working on BICEP2 over at the Dark Sector Lab (DSL).
	One of the IceCube strand marker flags. There's nothing for scale, but they're at least two meters tall.
	Underneath the Elevated Station.
	The B-pod cargo doors.
	The Dark Sector road.
	The AST/RO hut demolition continues.
	Cloud break on Wednesday morning.
	An unusually clean bench.
	TV in the lab. The screen on the right shows us what's happening to the telescope outside. The colour screen is pointing up at the receiver cabinet to monitor motion. The screen at left, which is off, displays a feed from the star camera. The plots on the computer screen below show movement of the telescope.
	The ski-way crossing beacon on.
	There's another Wiebe at Station.
	An alarming detour on the way to lunch.
	Snow berm.
(1848x3651, 1068.03 kb) A look into the Viper ground shield.
	Keck TV: telescope scanning.
	Lifting the 4-Kelvin tube onto the focal plane.
	Lifting the 4-Kelvin tube onto the focal plane.
	Chin-Lin tapes screws.
	Darren and Steve working on the BLASTbus.
	Calendar in the lab.
	Pablo (one of our IT guys) on the only bicycle at South Pole (it's communal).
	Chris after shaving.
	Lane talks about the South Pole greenhouse.
	The snow shover, still doing what it does best.
	LC-130 taxiing for take-off.
	More snow shoving.
	Take-off.
	Take-off.
	Take-off.
	Take-off.
	Snow shoving continues.
	Hauling cargo from the Dark Sector back to Station.
	Hauling cargo from the Dark Sector back to Station.
	Hauling cargo from the Dark Sector back to Station.
	Zak and Jamie prepare some superinsulation.
	Zak and Jamie prepare some superinsulation.
	Grant poses with the 4-K stage after installation of superinsulation.
	Who needs scissors? Jamie uses a soldering iron to cut the excess superinsulation off.
	One of the titanium boomerangs which separate the stages in the cryostat.
	Lifting the insert for installation in the cryostat.
	Carbon fibre struts, the other piece used to separate stages.
	Inserting the focal plane.
	Inserting the focal plane.
	Walt in one of the comfy chairs (and the only which has access to an ethernet cable).
	Still inserting the focal plane.
	Jamie and Zak secure the insert.
	Waveplate mechanism #4.
	Two pulse tube compressors.
	Waveplate installed in the cryostat. The big milky-white thing on top is a sapphire.
	Cryostat assembly continues.
	An attempt at a perpetual calendar.
	The culmination of a hard day's work of snow shoving. Not quite clear what the goal is here.
	Snow shoving.