Comments on: Terra Nova Bay or Bust

By: Jody Holmes

Jody Holmes — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:55:21 +0000

Wow, it’s quite amazing that this can be done at all, and to trouble shhot in such harsh conditions must be frustrating but rewarding at the same time.
Keep up the great work!
Jody

By: Richard Wagaman

Richard Wagaman — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:05:25 +0000

Teammates–

There needs to be much better data collection, mapping and predicting of the ice layers, holes and movement in Antartica and Greenland over the next 10 years. We need to better understand the overall air/land/temperature effects going on around these two critical land mass areas. If there is a “tipping point” in the overall movement of the ice shelfs, it is better to know about it as soon as possible.

Richard Wagaman
NASA ERAST Board, Industry Representative

By: Roger AC Williams

Roger AC Williams — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:10:10 +0000

Well done! I got a kick out of that launch from a pickup truck; it broke me up. Worked like a charm -:). How did you manage to stay up for 15 hours? Long-range tanks?
–Roger Williams, NOAA/GMCC (GMD) veteran, BRW-MLO (TDY)-SMO (but not SPO).

By: Adriana Bailey

Adriana Bailey — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:52:28 +0000

John – Great pics of the Aerosonde! Those first few launches must have been so tough. How great to have a successful flight under your belt…and a record-setting one at that! Very excited to hear about the mapping of the Katabatic winds. It will be terrific to see those results, once you’ve done the analysis.
Stay warm!
Adriana

By: mike harris

mike harris — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:43:37 +0000

great blog…here’s to successful missions ahead!(should rename the place “Aero-Sound”…)

By: Bev & Gra Logan

Bev & Gra Logan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:24:42 +0000

Well done.
What an adventure.
Bloody amazing.

By: djw

djw — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:03:10 +0000

Nice work guys. Interesting flight path.

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:48:39 +0000

Hi All,

Thanks for all of the comments on the posts.

Darin – Terry is down here right now and we’ve chatted lots about the beautiful polar stratospheric clouds we’ve been seeing here for the last week or so.

Brett- Sorry. I’ve got a pretty long waiting list of people that want to come down for our next trip.

Bobby, Harry – thanks for the comments about the early days of the US operations in Antarctica. I’m sure it was a different world down here then and much more of an adventure then it is today.

Matt – the downed Aerosonde is on loose sea ice (as opposed to fast ice that is attached to the land) so any attempt to retrieve it would be pretty risky. I’m not expecting that we’ll see it again.

Cheers,
John

By: Matt H.

Matt H. — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:39:29 +0000

Congratulations on the successful flight! Great write-up as well, thanks. Any chance of recovering the downed Aerosonde, or are they unrecoverable once they go down?