Monday, December 22, 2008

Update on ANITA

Everything appears fine with ANITA right now. She's actually headed straight towards Taylor Dome. The pulser we set up there is working fine.

Again, you can monitor our flight at http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/map/balloon8/balloon8.htm If you click on the google maps link at the bottom you can see a better representation of the path it took.

Here is one of the more interesting plots we can look at. The colors represent the thickness of the ice, with red being the thickest. The thicker the ice, the more likely a neutrino will interact with it. The path of ANITA is the pink line. The dotted circle around it represents the area ANITA can see.

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