{"id":6034,"date":"2012-12-07T22:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2012-12-07T22:22:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T02:22:14","slug":"wissard-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6034","title":{"rendered":"WISSARD Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday some of us took a tour of the WISSARD<\/a> test site. Before deploying to drill down to a sub-glacial lake, they’re drilling a test hole in the ice shelf, a little down the road from us. Our guide, Dennis, took us all through the modular and mobile stages of melting, purifying, heating, and pressurizing water to drill a hole through the ice.<\/p>\n

Between the drilling team, various science teams (biologists, geologists), and PR people, there’s quite a few WISSARD folks down here this year. Seems like you bump into them all the time.<\/p>\n