Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Arrival at Huelva

Hello altogether! Today, we continued our trip and arrived at our final destination: the measurement site close to Huelva in Spain.


MoLa in Spain

The day started quite nice. It was a little bit cold in the morning, but sky was clear and promising. And during the day, it got warmer and warmer. And the streets got bumpy again. So bumpy, that 50 kilometers before the end our mass spectrometer had serious problems and had to be shut down. I was cursing like hell. Still, by the time we reached Huelva, the weather was so nice, warm (20°C) and sunny, that suddenly the mood increased drastically.

Before entering the measurement site, we had to wait two hours because some kind of maneuver was taking place. When we finally were allowed to enter, it was close to 5 P.M. so we decided to just install our stationary inlet line. While driving MoLa is measuring through the tube you can see in front of the car. Here, we're sampling through a 10 meter high inlet on top of the roof.

MoLa alone in the dark



By the time we were half done, it was so dark that we decided to stop workin and close the day with a nice and simple spanish dinner from a grocery store which included a lot of cheese, fish olives and of course some nice spanish wine!


Größere Kartenansicht

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