![Click to enlarge](img/th_4431.jpg) | Ostrich eggs in the Galley (regular egg shown for scale). |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4432.jpg) | Breakfast. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4433.jpg) | You know there's not enough to do when vacuuming becomes interesting. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4434.jpg) | Sarah checks the status of the mirror on the end of the telescope. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4435.jpg) | The Keck Array from above. As you can see, only one of the three telescopes has been installed. The small porthole on the right is for the star tracker. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4436.jpg) | Closing up K1. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4437.jpg) | Sarah takes noise data. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4438.jpg) | Grant lowers the cap over the waveplate. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4439.jpg) | Chris inspects some heat straps. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4440.jpg) | Looking down the hall towards the receiver room (which is under the telescope). We were doing a relay to quickly get messages between the people in the receiver cabinet and the computers in the lab. I happened to be positioned in the jog. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4441.jpg) | Looking the other way. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4442.jpg) | A DC-3 picking up some tourists. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4443.jpg) | A downed IceCube flag. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4445.jpg) | Waiting for ALCI's DC-3 to taxi across the Dark Sector road. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4447.jpg) | Pre-launch checks. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4448.jpg) | Pre-launch checks. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4450.jpg) | Take-off. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4453.jpg) | Take-off. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4454.jpg) | Screamin' Eagle (a Pisten Bully) |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4455.jpg) | An IceCube detector at Destination Alpha. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4456.jpg) | Fuelies are the people who handle refuelling planes and anything else that needs it. They, naturally, exude fuel so they've put up a helpful sign in their area of one of the coat rooms. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4457.jpg) | Robert and Phil lift the hatch off. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4458.jpg) | Lowering the crane. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4459.jpg) | Two firemen watch our operation. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4460.jpg) | Phil teeters on the edge. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4461.jpg) | Hoisting the forebaffle. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4462.jpg) | Operation complete. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4463.jpg) | One last glimpse of natural light as the hatch is replaced. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4464.jpg) | This is what clouds look like. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4466.jpg) | Darren swaps power supplies up in the receiver cabinet. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4469.jpg) | Chris winds back up a roll of tape. |
![Click to play](img/th_4471.jpg) | Light entertainment in the lab. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4474.jpg) | K1 closeout continues. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4476.jpg) | Destination Alpha, with the US flag at half mast. |
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(10573x2502, 34201.60 kb) A view of the outbuildings Grid South of the Elevated Station from the top of
the snow pile near Destination Alpha. The edge of the Elevation Station is at
extreme left. The next building on left, with all the garage doors is the
cryogenics facility, one of the few out buildings kept open in winter. Behind
it is the waste facility. Most of the Jamesways (the long, semi-circular tents)
form Summer Camp, overflow housing in use during the summer. A lot of the rest
of the stuff you can see are storage berms. The white radar domes can just be
discerned against the whiteout conditions. To the right is the aircraft
refuelling yard, and the passenger (PAX) terminal. At extreme right, on the
other side of the fuel line, is the IceCube drill camp.
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![Click to enlarge](img/th_4482.jpg) | A stack of Macs. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4483.jpg) | Wiring cables. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4484.jpg) | Wiring cables. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4485.jpg) | Wiring cables. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4486.jpg) | Final closeout. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4487.jpg) | Old-school electronics in MAPO. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4488.jpg) | Grant, John and Sarah attach the MCE crate to K1 for continuity testing. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4489.jpg) | Our first official data acquisition. More clouds. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4490.jpg) | Oscar the half waveplate analog control box. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4491.jpg) | Zak gives us the thumbs-up. |
![Click toplay](img/th_4492.jpg) | Heading back home after a long day of work. |