| Summary: | This shows our sampling building. On the little container is the trailer that they used to move it out there. This had been pulled by a caterpillar tractor, brought us out to this location, which is 5 miles from the South Pole station. In the distance you can see the geodesic dome and the South Pole station. It’s hard to realize that’s 5 miles away. It looks like it’s very close. We would take snowmobiles back and forth because it was a very long walk. At the station where we’re sampling here, you can see we have another PVC stack that we bring our air down into the building. It is, again, guide down into the snow, and we have, then, a little wind vane out in front, which will allow us to turn off the sampling if the wind switches around from the South Pole. It might do this occasionally, but usually we do not see that happen. But we were making sure our samples were not contaminated because we had to sample for usually 10 days at a time to get enough sample to be able to analyze what was on them. But this was a very effective thing, and our results got a lot better. When we moved out to the station, we got very, very excellent results from this sampling site.
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