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OIB successfully completed the “Smith-Pope-Kohler IS2” mission today, in mostly sunny conditions, however wind driven uplift clouds developed over the far southwest edge of today’s survey area causing just a few minutes of camera and
NASA 817 carried the OIB aircrew and science teams on another long transit today, about 2500 miles (a little under 5 hours) each way. The OIB science low altitude flight line (at the end of
Following our hard down day yesterday, OIB is rested and ready to attempt the “Land Ice – Hamilton Line – Ronne Sector ” mission today, flying an arc near 88 degrees south, quite near the
OIB completed the “Mid-Weddell” mission, one of the most logistically difficult missions we’ve ever attempted, with an under-flight of the recently launched IceSat-2 satellite during an overnight DC8 flight in the eastern Weddell Sea, in
Replacement of the DC8 flight deck window is complete (thanks to the awesome AFRC DC8 aircraft team) and we’ll re-attempt an under-flight of the IS2 satellite after midnight on the sea ice “Mid-Weddell” mission. Take
OIB was planning to attempt a night mission over sea ice to underfly an IceSat2 orbit tonight. Unfortunately weather in the Weddell Sea deteriorated, and in addition, a regional trucker’s strike was blocking passage
The NASA IceSat 2 (IS2) satellite is in orbit and taking science data following its Sept 15th launch. Today at 0847Z (about 8 hours before the DC8 arrived at today’s science site) IceSat 2 orbited
Another sunny warm and calm morning in Punta Arenas. OIB will attempt the land ice “Foundation-Academy-IS2 B” mission today. Panoramic view of the Punta Arenas ramp this morning. The DC8 is out of frame to
OIB successfully completed the Seelye* Loop mission today. The weather was variable (as usual for the large geographic region covered by today’s flight), with areas of clouds, clearer skies and areas of low level ice
Another very successful OIB day with the completion of the “Recovery-IS2” land ice mission. Once again, the DC8 encountered perfect weather in eastern Antarctica and all OIB instrumentation worked well with complete data collection over