A team from Center for Space Science and Engineering Research at Virginia Tech makes a journey to Antarctica to deploy AAL-PIP (Autonomous Adaptive Low-Power Instrument Platform), which is a part of PENGUIn (Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigations) project.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
12/17/2010 Camping Food Pullout
For our camping, we were provided with food that will serve 5 day regular meals and 7 day emergency meals. Due to very limited cooking utensils and extreme weather during our camping, our meals need to be simple and easy-to-cook such as instant soup, just-add-water type of food, canned food, biscuits, etc. Also, since everything will basically freeze, we have to limit the amount of liquid (e.g., powdered milk and juice). This picture shows the McMurdo Station's food storage for campers. We were supposed to go over their food items and pull out whatever we thought would be necessary. Although we are scheduled to camp for 5 days, we also have to bring extra 7 day emergency foods (dehydrated ones) assuming we will have 2 meals per day in case of delayed flight due to severe weather or other more urgent flight schedule.
This is how much we will bring for our 5 day camping (plus 7 day emergency). Hopefully, we don't get tired of having those instant food (we will bring some frozen meat and vegetable to cook, though).
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