The first day at the site

Today, we finished the setup of MoLa at the measurement site. And, we started our measurements. Furthermore, we had a real nice dinner involving lot of fresh fish.



Above, you can see a picture of MoLa at the measurement side. Todays work was first to install and secure the second measurement mast. This one is the extendable mast of MoLa which carries MoLas weather station. Yeah, we have a weather station on top of MoLa. Funny thing is, while driving, it's always showing that northern winds. ;-)

After that part, we did start the installation and reconfiguring of the instruments inside. The most sensitive instruments you want as close as possible to the inlet, so while MoLa's driving around, that position is close to the front inlet. During stationary measurements, that's not true anymore, so you have to move around quite a few instruments.

Furthermore, we experienced some more problems with our air condition: a fuse broke. Only thing, this fuse was rated for 40 ampere. Fortunately, this time we're NOT in the middle of nowhere (like the last two campaigns I've joined), so we were able to get some replacements: 50 ampere fuses! ;-)


Part of the MoLa crew having a "Feierabend Bier" after work's done
When we left the side for dinner, everything was running again, and all instruments were measuring. So we really could (and did) enjoy the nice dinner in a fish restaurant we were invited to!