An 80,000 pound compaction cart is offloaded from a C-17 at McMurdo Station's Phoenix Airfield. 
<p>The cart is used to compact the snow to the hardness of concrete, allowing wheeled aircraft to land.
This was the heaviest single piece of cargo ever delivered by C-17 to Phoenix Airfield near McMurdo. 
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Melanie Miller
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