Author Archives: Anne Gambrel

SPIDER was released from her balloon at 5:55 am local time today (11:55 EST Saturday, January 17), and parachuted gracefully (we think) to earth. She took a pretty weird tour of the continent. The winds didn’t act exactly as we … Continue reading →

SPIDER has now been at float for a little over a week. The payload has been very slowly wandering south, a different trajectory than you’d usually expect for a Long Duration Balloon (LDB). Normally they make circular trips around the … Continue reading →

Anne Gambrel is a graduate student in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. She blogs at SPIDER on the Ice. Nov. 26, 2015. This week started off with the very important and always somewhat nerve-racking step of moving Theo … Continue reading →