Different
views of the balloon instrumentation room.This
is where we put all the computers to track the balloon
TopHat.
A
McMurdo employee explains to one of TopHat's team
members that the control center is still covered in
snow from the last winter.
The
first TopHat team members to make it to the great
cold tundra of Antarctica.
TopHat
cargo sitting out on the ice as our lab is completed
and heated.
Tiny
Tim on the left, is something the balloon people use
to start the balloon inflation.
Image
of the ice shelf as you drive over to the lab. If
you look really close you can see ripples in the ice.
They look like frozen waves. This is where the ice
meets the land and the ice has been pushed and pushed
until it has no choice but to go up.
New
and improved truck! This snowcar is an experimental
vehicle here.