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All, Today we flew “George VI 2” as our first science flight of the campaign. The instruments performed well despite some inconveniences early on, but overall the day was a success. We encountered more low-lying
All, After a 11 hour flight to Santiago, followed by a roughly 2 hour layover at the FBO there, we continued on for another 3 hour flight south to Punta Arenas yesterday arriving in the
All, Today we unloaded the plane and set up the GPS station, among other things. We got most of the cargo unloaded between 7-8am and proceeded to set things up. It was snowing as we
All, I will be sending out our usual “sitreps” during the next few weeks during our deployment to Punta Arenas, Chile. We currently are preparing to leave from Palmdale, CA around 9pm tonight on the
All, Today we successfully completed “Helheim-Kangerdlugsuuaq Gap B”, collecting data for approximately 95% of the intended flight lines. We knew that there would be an area of clouds on the way to the east coast,
As successor to COBE, the first year survey of the WMAP probe has produced some interesting findings. According to this paper, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, the universe conforms to a flat model (so