{"id":4893,"date":"2011-01-05T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2011-01-05T22:29:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T02:29:58","slug":"termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=4893","title":{"rendered":"Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:31 local time (NZDT) BLAST-Pol terminated. It now rests about 630km away, roughly along the South Pole Traverse.<\/p>\n<p>The gondola is at rest, we think it might be upright-ish, and systems still work good enough for us to guess that it might be upright-ish. So, at least for now, things are in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>Update: I added some more pictures. Also 630km, not 630m.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4893 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=4907'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4211-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Power Down Checklist\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4907\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4211-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4211-166x250.jpg 166w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4211-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4907'>\n\t\t\t\tBarth reads out commands from our power-down checklist\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=4908'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4215-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Power Downers\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4215-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4215-250x166.jpg 250w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4215-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4908'>\n\t\t\t\tMatt and Elio send the commands\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=4909'><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4224-100x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Waiting\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4224-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4224-166x250.jpg 166w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4224-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4909'>\n\t\t\t\tWaiting, in the dark, for BLAST to fall\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=4910'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4226-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Laura\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4910\" srcset=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4226-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4226-250x166.jpg 250w, http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4226-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4910'>\n\t\t\t\tLaura does the same on the other side of the room\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?attachment_id=4895'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/ballast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/img_4232-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Highly Accurate Map\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4895\" 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It now rests about 630km away, roughly along the South Pole Traverse.<\/p>\n<p>The gondola is at rest, we think it might be upright-ish, and systems still work good enough for us to guess that it might be upright-ish. So, at least for now, things are in good shape.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}