
The taxi to the end of the runway gets us there at about 8 am.

By 9:30am, we were on station with the ATM.

We encountered some fog, but most of our instruments worked despite it.

Lots of sea ice, nothing else, just ice.

Instrument-driven autopilot takes over.

We flew directly over the North Pole.

Finished the CryoSat-2 ground track.

End of the day science meeting.

5:30 am – Wakeup time. If you are a part of the aircrew, you probably get up even earlier than…