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It got better
The day... was frustrating. Nothing to do... I felt like I was wasting my time here. But equipment arrived, and the sun came out, and it got better.
At least the net connection was back up this morning, so I could catch up. And respond to requests from work... in the afternoon, I took a tour of our new greenhouse:
And they plan to keep it running year around, with a combined solar-wind system:
Later, I helped a French grad student with his soil resistivity measurements... a rolling platform with electrodes and poles.
Note the polygons in the soil... a periglacial feature.
After dinner a Twin Otter arrived with cargo -- the spacesuit, and the gravity meter (shown in its case):
And used it to practice, calculating that the absolute gravity field here is about half a percent higher than at sea level at the equator... so a 200 lb person would be a pound heavier.
So... I was depressed and felt a bit useless earlier... but now things are better. Tomorrow will hopefully be busy ;-).
At least the net connection was back up this morning, so I could catch up. And respond to requests from work... in the afternoon, I took a tour of our new greenhouse:
And they plan to keep it running year around, with a combined solar-wind system:
Later, I helped a French grad student with his soil resistivity measurements... a rolling platform with electrodes and poles.
Note the polygons in the soil... a periglacial feature.
After dinner a Twin Otter arrived with cargo -- the spacesuit, and the gravity meter (shown in its case):
And used it to practice, calculating that the absolute gravity field here is about half a percent higher than at sea level at the equator... so a 200 lb person would be a pound heavier.
So... I was depressed and felt a bit useless earlier... but now things are better. Tomorrow will hopefully be busy ;-).