Sunset!

The last few days the sun has really started to set in the evenings, and it's changing fast. It was only a week ago that we first saw it dip behind the highest peak in the region, Lorenzenpiggen. Soon thereafter, we started getting multiple sunrises and sunsets as it went along the montaineous horizon in the south, and now it's actually setting behind the mountains. The good thing with this is that it allows for splendid photo opportunities in the evenings, such as the one below:



At this occasion (unfortunately it's only slightly visible in this photo, as we were too late..) the red-pinkish light from the sun was catching a very low cloud in front of Schumacher (a low but wide mountain in the left part of the photo) making it shine up in the same color as the sun. You might get an idea if you have a look at the picture of the moon below, taken at the same occasion:




Actually, I think that one of the things that strike me the most here is the sky. We're looking out of the same window every day, with the same scenic view. Most of our photos are of the same landscape, just taken at different occasions, but the sky is just so incredibly big and the cloud formations makes it look different every time. Example attached below :)



A part from that, we're getting ready to go home now soon. In a day or two we'll have to start packing up our containers, and then we're scheduled to be on a flight out of here on the 10th. Given all the problems we experienced on the way here, you can't be too sure about that though. We've been expecting a snow storm to come in for about a week now, but I'm sure it'll show up just before the scheduled departure and stay for weeks.. But, maybe then we won't have to worry about the next gianormous iceberg that is about to close up the bay were we're supposed to back-load all the containers..
As a final note, our research here has recently been documented a bit by our accompanying journalist Tiara's blog, where we are compared to Space Storm troopers, fighting
ionospheric PMS.. http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/tiara/2010/02/04/space-storm-troopers/

Cheers,
Torbjörn