Update

I have just received word that ANITA will likely be cut down in the next few days. It is on a path that would bring it back relatively close to McMurdo. NSF just wants it on the ground, we obviously would like it to land as close to McMurdo as possible. I'll let you know what happens with it all, but it will likely be a chaotic period for me, and it is likely that I will be out of here in less than two weeks.

CREAM still has not been able to get to their payload. Their recovery flights have been scrubbed at least 8 times, all due to weather at the recovery site. The location is at the limit of the range of the planes here, and because of restrictions on the number of hours the pilots can work in a day, the recovery team will only get two hours on the ground. They have scheduled 4 trips to recover the payload. A plane on another mission was able to do some reconnaissance of the payload, and told the recovery team to "bring shovels." It is conceivable that CREAM may not be able to recover their gondola this year, especially if there is much time between flights as they could spend a considerable portion of the ground time just digging it out of the snow.