{"id":702,"date":"2019-09-10T02:13:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T02:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/?p=702"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:02:49","slug":"transfer-completed-halo-arrived-in-rio-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/southtracnews\/2019\/09\/10\/transfer-completed-halo-arrived-in-rio-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer completed &#8211; HALO arrived in Rio Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a long journey from Central Europe to \u201ethe end of the world\u201d. Most of the SouthTRAC participants have been travelling for up to two days using trains, commercial aircraft and rental cars. It was a three-day journey for HALO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8230;and the flight crew which included an additional short local research flight around Cap Verde. The last part of the transfer from Buenos Aires to Rio Grande was a non-stop but not a direct flight. The route went along close to the Andes and past Rio Grande towards 58\u00b0S before the landing under blue sky and picturesque conditions at Rio Grande Airport.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_1.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SouthTRAC participants awaiting the arrival of HALO infront of the Hangar. Photo: S. Gisinger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-705\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-705 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival3.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival3-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HALO on its way to the hangar at Rio Grande Airport. Photo: S. Gisinger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_2.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_2-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/halo_arrival_2-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to Rio Grande, Argentina. Photo: S. Gisinger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a long journey from Central Europe to \u201ethe end of the world\u201d. Most of the SouthTRAC participants have been travelling for up to two days using trains, commercial aircraft and rental cars. It was a three-day journey for HALO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,23,15],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-southtracnews","tag-halo","tag-riogrande","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa.op.dlr.de\/southtrac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}