On Christmas day every year, people at the Pole enjoy a race called "Race around the World". They claim they go around the world after they run a couple of miles around the station.
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.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
12/25/2010 Day 5: Around the World
Even on Christmas day, we had to push forward to finish our work on schedule. Our team could finally locate our equipment inside the pit that we dug yesterday and install all the batteries. We wanted to finish work by 3:00 pm so we could enjoy the Christmas dinner at South Pole Station.
There are monitors at the station here and there showing weather information, flight information, announcement, etc. Today, there is some kind of a joke in celebration of Christmas. Usually, there are flights between McMurdo Station and South Pole Station but today, the monitor says "A flight from North Pole to South Pole" operated by reindeers...
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