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<\/a>Sleepy travel <\/div>
Sleep is difficult with the noise<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Disembarking at the pole <\/div>
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<\/a>Landed on the skiway <\/div>
With solar halo<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The elevated station <\/div>
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<\/a>Station surroundings <\/div>
Seen from the observation deck<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>View of the Dark Sector <\/div>
Where the telescopes are located<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>South Pole Telescope <\/div>
Head on view of the 10m dish<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Flagged trail offshoot <\/div>
To the Ice Cube experiment's building (?)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The MAPO building <\/div>
Keck telescope is inside the ground-shield on the right side<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Dark Sector Lab <\/div>
Home to SPT (left) and BICEP (in ground shield on top right)<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>DSL main building <\/div>
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<\/a>BICEP3 mount <\/div>
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<\/a>Interesting panel <\/div>
For keeping the window dry with nitrogen<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Electronics rack <\/div>
I work on the box in the lower left<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Huge chopper wheel <\/div>
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<\/a>BICEP3 telescope <\/div>
With some bright daylight leaking in<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Walking back to the station <\/div>
Across the skiway<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Walking to the pole <\/div>
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<\/a>Geographic South Pole <\/div>
The 2015 marker<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Zeesh, Jamie, and Walt <\/div>
Came out to the pole with me<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Once SPIDER finished, I spent a week at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The BICEP3 telescope deployed this year, and I went down to help integrate electronics for which I am the expert. While there, I made a mandatory visit to the two south poles: the geographic South Pole marker (which is updated annually), and the shiny looking ceremonial pole for photo ops. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499"}],"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=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}