Some of my favourite photos from the BLAST-Pol launch campaign. November 2012 to January 2013 in McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
This is just a collection of previously-uploaded photos. Titles and captions may not all make sense without their original context.
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Pink rose
![Juan Juan's cave • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8214718313/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8066/8214718313_ddf5f22285_m.jpg)
Juan's cave
Which he soon vacated, because it was getting hot inside
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Sled ride
Tyr pulls me back to the highbay from the storage area
![Enzo and Mt Erebus Enzo and Mt Erebus • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8215818330/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8199/8215818330_97e523978f_m.jpg)
Enzo and Mt Erebus
Grinning because he has a snowball
![Dessert Dessert • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8214741521/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8345/8214741521_e734ee1efc_m.jpg)
Dessert
One of each, of course!
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Posing for the star camera
BLAST was rotated so that the SBSC points towards the mezzanine. Natalie capitalizes on this circumstance
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Mark
Takes his pipe on the walk
![Juan Juan • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8217716377/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8490/8217716377_ae9efa0ece_m.jpg)
Juan
Wears his issued "bunny boots"
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Inner frame
Mirrors and star cameras
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Setting the ladder up the back
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Chief and antennas
Our crew chief (Mark) switches from The Boss back to the crane. Amongst the antennas on the top
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BLAST and I
Taken by Juan
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Tyr
Rocking the goggles, hard hat, and big red style
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Me and the snow
Also taken by Juan
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Elio
Looking majestic
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LDB Panorama
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LDB
Has flags now
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Greg
With camera
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LDB
As seen from Ob Hill
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McMurdo
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Laura
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Colombian flag
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Boom prep
Laying the flight train down for Super-TIGER's compatibility test
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Team Rotate
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Pointing at the sun
A rare and usually avoided occurrence. The telescope opening is covered to prevent explosion
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BLAST comes inside
With scenic backdrop
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Anne
Was our guide
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Pressure ridge
Uplifted ice, with sea water, and mountains in the background
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Bunny ears
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Two telescopes
On the decks of neighbouring highbays
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Group photo
I adopt a normal pose, and Tyr compensates by being goofy
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Barth supervises tests
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Elio in the crawlspace between the mirror and readout electoronics
You can see that it's not a happy place to be
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Super-cool TIGER hat
With sun glasses
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Laura comes outside
To watch launch preparations
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Person for scale
Serious scale
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Scott
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Piball released
Done evey 30 minutes in preparation for launch
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Piball tracking
Provides profile of wind vs altitude
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Bye Enzo
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I'm learning to cross-country ski
Photo from Andrei
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BLASTPol
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The cleaned telescope
In profile, slightly
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The Boss picks us up
![Tyr and Castle Rock Tyr and Castle Rock • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8281382099/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8346/8281382099_6f75b17253_m.jpg)
Tyr and Castle Rock
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Stopping to Pose II
!["What, you guys don "What, you guys don't just leap up mountains?" • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8282443762/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8077/8282443762_596a669e1c_m.jpg)
"What, you guys don't just leap up mountains?"
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Sledding down the hill
Natalie gets some good speed
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More cable taping
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Timelapse testing Tristan
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Stack of connector pins
Mark made this far longer than I expected. Can you tell we're not all busy all the time anymore?
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Natalie
Being a NASA cetified crane operator
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Laura caroling
At the Christmas Eve party
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Obligatory The Boss plus BLAST plus highbay shot
I'm almost out of obligatory shots, the rest will be launch specific
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Flightline setup
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Antistatic smocks
For dealing with explosives. EXPLOSIVES!
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Fire in the balloon
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Balloon inspection
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This is not a "cool guys don't look at explosions" moment
Thankfully
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Inflation panorama
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Anticipation
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Balloon rising
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Launch
With The Boss gunning it in reverse
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Penguin!
Briefly does something
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Storage shelves
Less empty
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Weddell Seal
Frolicking in the sun. This one moved more than all other seals I've watched combined
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Arrival heights and McMurdo
As seen from Vince's cross, at the tip of hut point
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Laura descending
![Tristan Tristan • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27717602@N03/8363957756/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>](https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8517/8363957756_56a8b7d8fa_m.jpg)
Tristan
In wide angle
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To Castle Rock we go
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