Images – Ellsworth Live

Departure and the end

Twin Otter arrives for the first uplift

Loading supplies and equipment

Up, up and away…

The clear-up begins

Dismantling the boiler container

Packing up the science tent

Recovering the remaining fuel

A hard decision

The decision was made

The hose was cut

Not such a merry Christmas

Fine margins

The boiler was fixed…

The drill worked well to 300m…

But the cavities would not connect properly

Snow management

Clearing snow from the fuel drums

A perfect snowflake

Pete – SLE’s extreme cameraman!

Delivery complete

Andy & Andy wait for the aircraft

Sign here please!

The Twin Otter heads for Rothera

Life on the ice

Alien visitor – a met balloon overhead

Shoveling duty now 10 mins per hour

Inside the toilet tent!

High-res panoramas

The enigmatic Ellsworth Mountains

Inside the main weatherhaven tent

Wind-blown sastrugi surround camp

Note: these are high-res images and so may take a few moments to view.

Holding pattern

Recording water temp. in the tanks

Welding a bracket for the Sno-cat

Snow for water from the ‘clean zone’

Snow sampling

Sampling over 1km from camp

Data provides a local biological profile

Snow is collected in sterile containers