Leroy Chiao, Matt Reyes and I went out for a traverse today. Our traveling companions were Pascal Lee, the PI of the Haughton-Mars Project (who led the traverse), Jarloo Kiguktak an advisor […]
Analog Studies
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Away Teams & Field Reports, Status Report
Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 14 July 2007: Using an iPhone on Mars
One of the things you have no problem fining on Devon Island is electronic gear. It is everywhere.
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Away Teams & Field Reports, Status Report
Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 11 July 2007: Heading North
Our flight today from Ottawa to Resolute Bay began with a little drama. Last night when Matt Reyes flew from Las Vegas to Philadelphia to Ottawa his luggage did not […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Press Release
NAI Selects Six Lewis and Clark Field Scholars
The NAI and the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in North America and the sponsor of Lewis and Clarks Corps of Discovery in 1804, are partners in […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Astrobiology (general), Education and Outreach
Earth as a Classroom
“In July 2007 several hundred students will get look over the shoulder of space researchers at a remote research base in the Canadian arctic. The place: Devon Island, a place […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Microbiology & Virology, People Of Astrobiology, Status Report
Noted Astrobiologist Imre Friedmann Has Died
Noted astrobiologist Imre Friedmann died yesterday morning.
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Away Teams & Field Reports, Status Report
Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 10 July 2007: Back to the Arctic
Once again I am headed north to Devon Island, the home of the Haughton-Mars Project. This is a place many have come to call “Mars on Earth” for its similarity […]
Posted inAnalog Studies, Education and Outreach
NAI Graduate Student Simulates Mars in the Utah Desert
Irene Schneider from NAI’s Penn State Team is spending two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station in a simulated expedition to the Red Planet. The last of the 2006-2007 […]
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Photos From HMP Research Station on Devon Island Now Online
Haughton Mars Project Research Station Photo Report – Aerial Views, Mars Institute “In February the Mars Institute undertook its annual trip to the high arctic for talks with local communities […]
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The HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) Journal – Call for Papers
HFSP Publishing is launching a new journal for scientists doing high quality, innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the fields of physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or […]