SPIDER landed safely on Saturday, January 17, reported William Jones, lead researcher on the project and an assistant professor of physics at Princeton. The crew will now undertake an expedition to recover the data from where SPIDER set down, about 2274 kilometers from McMurdo Station.
From Antarctica:
“By all measures, the data look great. Of course we won’t know until we can look at the full set of data where we stand, but we couldn’t be more pleased at the moment.” -William Jones