The plan for the 26th was to collect fifty 10 kg samples within 8 km radius from the presumed fall-out zone. Instead they collected smaller samples closer to the camp and used more time behind the microscopes. The moderate to heavy rain that day was not too bad. The AS-350 helicopter from the Danish Meteorological Institute arrived at the campsite around noon on the 27th. Within the next four hours the helicopter managed to collect 50 samples of each 10 kg from the area covered by a lot of deep and dangerous crevasses.
Snow falls at night, but it usually melts during the day.
During the day on the 28th and the 29th the participants will melt and filter the 22 samples that will determine, where the search for the fragments will begin. The reasons for the move are the difficult conditions surrounding camp-A, and the fact that the team has searched the area thoroughly. Unfortunately the move was not possible, because of the bad weather. A box containing dust samples was supposed to leave the camp yesterday, but the weather prevented this as well. It might be necessary to fly the box directly to Narssarssauaq tonight, in order to catch the plane to Copenhagen on August 5.