After a weather abort the day before, BLAST-Pol took a trip outside yesterday to the "dance floor". This is a wooden platform that’s away from buildings so that GPS antennas work better, in the sun so that sun sensors work better, and away from ferromagnetic objects so that the magnetometer works better. Basically it’s where all of our coarse pointing sensors work better. And so we go there to test and calibrate them.
Action through the fog
A little closer
With a touch of colour now
Magnetomoter mounting
On the front of the chin, as far from any steel as anywhere else on the gondola
Anchor block
BLAST is tied down to prevent blowing over
BLAST and I
Taken by Juan
Me and the snow
Also taken by Juan
Tyr
Rocking the goggles, hard hat, and big red style
On the dance floor
Barth and BLAST
We babysat the gondola for a while
Elio
Looking majestic
Snow accumulation on the cables
Enzo gets a portrait with BLAST too
The sun sensors
Calibrating these is one of the reasons to go outside
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