Elle Shaw

Featuring our own @j_dunkley! newscientist.com/article/mg2633…

The @SimonsObs collaboration meeting has kicked off with a great first day full of highlights of how far we’ve come in the last year!

@EveVavagiakis @SimonsObs oooh I'm taking notes on how heavy coat I need to pack!

Very literally living the dream today. @SimonsObs

Images of our site via drone (Credit: Gabriele Coppi, Rolando Dunner, Federico Nati, Matias Rojas)

Congratulations to Dr. @ElleShaw5 on her successful Ph.D. defense this afternoon!

Check out video of our super pressure balloon launch from New Zealand! Right now, the scientific balloon continues its journey east away across the Pacific Ocean. Follow the balloon now (hint, if you click Google Maps you'll get a more zoomed in view!): go.nasa.gov/3NaGobV

One of my pictures of SPIDER on launch day made the semifinals! Check out the neat research being done at UIUC and then vote for mine. :)

Gumball made it back from outer space and Antarctica! (feat. a SPIDER painting by my lab mate Amber Lennox)

A great article by @PhysicsIllinois and @JeffFilippini about @SPIDER_CMB! physics.illinois.edu/news/SPIDER-ba…

First recovery trip on January 20th. Field safety specialists first scope out the site for hidden crevasses in the snow. 📸: @McadooRose

Initial flyover of the landing site near Hercules Dome, showed that the parachute detached (yay) and the site looked good for landing and taxiing to the payload. 📸: Kelsey Kushneryk, Ken Borek Air

SPIDER-2 Flight hardware and data recovery is complete, with just 20 days from flight termination to complete recovery! Only footprints are left, and those will soon be erased by the blowing snow. Now, for some cool recovery photos! (thread)

I'm happy to report that Gumball has been safely recovered... oh yeah, and the data drives too!

First two launches probably scrubbed because we forgot our mascot.🦔#flyhighlittleguy

Launch attempt #3 today. SPIDER rolled out of the high bay at 2:30 AM ready to be picked up by the launch vehicle, The Boss. csbf.nasa.gov/antarctica/ice…

@JeffFilippini @SPIDER_CMB I'm impressed you even made entries!

Antarctic ballooning, as seen in my @SPIDER_CMB lab notebook: - To 19Dec (pre-flight compatibility testing): Clear, readable daily entries - 20-23Dec (launch attempts, launch, line-of-sight): Pages of confused, chaotic chicken scratch - 25Dec (slept): Readable entries resume

SPIDER's second flight has terminated, and we are descending near Hercules Dome!

In celebration of the end of SPIDER’s second flight, here’s a quick look back at our Antarctic campaign, put together by ⁦grad student Jared May. @jm_phys1cs⁩ #touchdown #ScientificBallooning #Antarctica

This was SPIDER's last time leaving the Payload 2 high bay!

On the #WinterSolstice, the Wallops balloon teams were on the ice in Antarctica and launched the SPIDER payload, a mission that will study the cosmic microwave background. Follow its flight progress: go.nasa.gov/3vcKGVG

The @PhysicsIllinois portion of the @SPIDER_CMB ice team (Sho, me, @ElleShaw5), with SPIDER and Mt. Erebus. 📷Riccardo Gualtieri (former Illinois postdoc!)

Some more photos from @SPIDER_CMB's launch! ellecshaw.wixsite.com/elleshaw/post/…