Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists » Christina Riesselman http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:40:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Road to ANDRILL http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/the-road-to-andrill/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/the-road-to-andrill/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:00:38 +0000 Christina Riesselman http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=59 MCMURDO ICE SHEET– In this video dispatch, ride in a special Mat Track truck across the ice sheet with me as I travel with ANDRILL Staff Scientist Richard Levy from McMurdo Station to the ANDRILL drill site. We investigate the truck’s special wheels, observe beautiful panoramas of the Transantarctic Mountains, and hear the drill running at the drill site.

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The ANDRILL drill site.
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Me stopping for a photo op on the road to ANDRILL.

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