spending a couple of weeks at McMurdo packing up an experiment so
technically she is not at the pole but I thought what she does is
interesting, I though I would tell you about her. Her main project is
to study aurora. She normally spends her time near the other pole,
the North Pole. She goes up to Alaska in the winter, shoots up
sounding rockets with magnetic field sensors and studies the data that
gets transmitted back while the sensor is up in the air. The whole
experiment is essentially destroyed when the sensor comes back to
ground. She is not normally working on this particular experiment
here but she volunteered to help out.
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