ARTEMIS and Team Arrive

10/8/2015

By Peter Kimball

Britney greets Evan, Kristof, and Brian - fresh off the C-17 at the Pegasus White Ice Runway. (photo: Peter Kimball)

Yesterday was a big day for our project. The C-17 was able to make it through from Christchurch, bringing ARTEMIS as well as three more of our team. Justin, Britney, and I met Evan, Kristof, and Brian at the Pegasus White Ice Runway. We also stuck around to watch the ARTEMIS crate be unloaded (very exciting!), and the C-17 load up and take off back to New Zealand (very cool!).

The folks on station have been very good to our project. The cargo crews have been handling ARTEMIS with great care, and the South Pole Overland Traverse team have cleared a space in their shop where ARTEMIS is currently nice and warm while we work through weather delays affecting our bot house construction.

2 Comments

Maria

10/9/2015 04:05:00 am

Kristof, great to finally see you and your team mates in Antarctica. You must be the hottest of them, since you are the only one without your head covered! :) Muttertierchen

Pamela

10/10/2015 04:07:31 am

Great photo of you guys!! Enjoy the experience!!

About the Blog

This is the personal blog of Peter Kimball and Evan Clark, following our deployment with the ARTEMIS long-range underwater robotic vehicle to explore beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Authors

Peter Kimball is an aerospace engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Evan Clark is a computer scientist and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Kristof Richmond is a mechanical engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.