Windspeed (knots): Calm
Sunrise: 0328
Sunset: 0002 (12:02AM)
Down to about 3.5 hours of the sun being down, but it's light out all the time now.
The Ice Runway is officially open, it's our airfield on the frozen ocean. Hopefully by February it'll be open water so I can see whales and penguins! We went out there yesterday and today to setup some computers in some of the huts out there.
We actually have 2 airfields, Pegasus, which is on the permanent, 500 foot ice shelf, that I flew in on and will fly out of, and now the Ice Runway. They build the Ice Runway because it's much closer to McMurdo and therefore saves fuel and time getting people and cargo between planes and town.
Here are a couple of pics of our "airport," and you thought La Guardia was a POS...
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