Another instrument inspection day. After lunch Marina, Mark and I went to the Universidad Austral de Chile Sede Puerto Montt (University of Southern Chile in Puerto Montt). We met two bright undergraduate students who hosted our magnetometer at their lab (FABLAB laboratorio de Fabrication). The lab is dedicated to the famous teacher-astronaut, Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in Challenger explosion. Although we identified a magnetically quiet site for our sensor (the second option to place our sensor, because we checked another site yesterday as well), we experienced another very serious issue. Since this is the second version of SMALL magnetometer (really old), we figured out that one of the main magnetic field components (Bx) is saturated and not working. If the Bx component is not working then the magnetometer data is technically useless. We tried all possible options but with no success. So, after we spent almost the whole afternoon, we left the magnetometer there and got back to our hotel. We then made ourself ready for the conference dinner which was held at the same hotel where we're staying.
Tsunami warning Siren!
Our team and the two young undergraduate students at the end of our mission!
No comments:
Post a Comment