{"id":266,"date":"2016-11-11T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-11-13T02:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:06:24","slug":"flight-to-mcmurdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Flight to Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-245 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0878-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0878\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0878-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0878-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0878-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the C17 &#8212; big enough to hold a helicopter, plus 55 passengers, and supplies for McMurdo. I ended up in the front middle seat. \u00a0Most people sat along the walls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-249 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0879-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0879\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0879-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0879-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0879-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The flight tracker was a cardboard cutout of a plane that a crew member moved on a map from time to time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-265 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0900\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There aren&#8217;t many windows on a C17. As we neared Antarctica, I snapped a picture of the sea ice through the tiny window next to the door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0895-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0895\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0895-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0895-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0895-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crew invited everyone for a brief visit to the flight deck. The view was dazzling &#8212; both in intensity and beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-262 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0888-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0888\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0888-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0888-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0888-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first view of the glaciers and icefields of Antarctica from the flight deck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-263 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0916-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0916\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0916-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0916-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0916-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the ground at Pegasus Field, an ice runway about 19 miles from McMurdo Station.\u00a0Planes with wheels can land here until the surface softens too much in the summer sunlight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}