Shakedown flight

 

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Part of the ROSETTA crew walking out to the plane at Williams Field.
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Kirsty is the Field Principal Investigator whose job is to keep the thirteen of us working like a machine. Here she gives some last minute instructions before the flight.
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Tej manages the Icepod console.
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Output on the Icepod control panel. This particular display shows readings from the magnetometer.
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Nick and Dave monitor one gravimeter while Fabio and Grant monitor another. We have two onboard in order to compare a new one with a well-established and well-understood one.
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Gravity anomalies in real time.
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The NY Air National Guard crew is very friendly and helpful.
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Back on the ground we start to dig into the data to see what it means.