26 November, 2000
Today was not a parcticularly eventful day for me with one notable
exception--the remote camera that is looking into the crater on Erebus came
clean today. It seems there may have been some windblown snow over the
lens, and it fell away. There was also an issue concerning the radio
channels being reset. When that was fixed, there was still no picture.
From the lab it was difficult to tell whether it was a signal failure or an
obstruction. It was an obstruction. Bill McIntosh, who is responsible for
the installation of the camera, was very happy about that. For those of you
who have seen the option for live video on the Mt. Erebus Observatory
Homepage, you'll have to wait. There are some difficulties surrounding the
amount of bandwidth needed to send the signal out to New Mexico Tech, where
it would be re-routed to the Web. We shall see.
Tomorrow I will join the other first-timers in Antarctica for the snow
survival school. That will involve making a shelter out of the hard-packed
snow and then sleeping in it (among other survival chores). I will keep a
journal and take pictures, but I cannot post them for a few days for obvious
reasons.
I would like to begin including various scenes from McMurdo which will
sometimes have a direct connection with what I've written, and sometimes
not. The goal is to take you on little "walks around town" when we can.
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