Survivor Ellesmere

Temperatures have been a bit warm since we got here - instead of the usual -42 we've been experiencing -30 to -25 down at the station and up to -9 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) at the lab. (Which is located 600 m higher up than the weather station, and we generally enjoy a temperature inversion - when the temperature goes up as you go higher in the atmosphere, as opposed to down.) It's all well and good that it's a bit warmer, except for two things:
(1) We still need to wear our Arctic gear everywhere, since the weather can change so quickly, and so we're all over heating.
(2) It's cloudy. Super cloudy. The first picture is about the clearest it's been. We need the clouds to go away so that we can get good measurements. (My instrument works regardless, but many others need to see the Sun.)
The next picture is the first solar spectrum taken with my traveling instrument this campaign. (The one that lives at PEARL had its first spectrum a week before I arrived. No one thought to take a picture.) My instruments have been working super-well this campaign. (Now that I've said this they're both going to be broken tomorrow.) And their data agrees super-well too, which is good, since they're essentially the same instrument. (Though the new one starts taking spectra when it's still REALLY dark out - we're all fairly impressed.)
This last picture is one that I took by accident but I really like it. I had my camera in my pocket anticipating the ozonesonde launch this evening. (The balloon in the background - it carries a small instrument that measures the ozone in the atmosphere as the balloon travels up.) When I took it out to start taking a video, I moved the knob that determines what kind of settings to use. I ended up with some odd setting and this ghostly picture. I am going to call it art, and pretend that I did this on purpose. Science art is the best kind of art.