Friday Today the helicopter came in! The hike to our first site on the volcano was much shorter than the one in Ebbadalen, but since we had the use of […]
Analog Studies
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AMASE 2006 Updates
Kirsten Fristad’s NASA Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Field Reports “The last two days have been very busy with instrument testing, gathering last minute supplies and attending an arctic training […]
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Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Under Way
Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2006, NASA “In August, members of the Sample Analysis of Mars (SAM) Lab team will spend two and a half weeks in Svalbard. The […]
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HMP Research Station Webcams online live from Devon Island
Editor’s note:Two new HMP Research Station webcams are now online and updating every 10 minutes. This brings a total of four webcams now available from Devon Island including the two […]
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EVA Med Evac Sim on Devon Island
EVA Med Evac Sim experiment preparations EVA Med Evac Simulation Objectives Preparations are still underway for the EVA med evac sim, which will take place on Monday. The following is […]
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Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse Webcams Online
The Mars Institute’s Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse on Devon Island now has two webcams available for public viewing. One camera shows a view of the greenhouse and surroundings from the […]
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HMP Research Station Panorama
Aerial Photo of the Haughton-Mars Project Research Station (HMP RS) on Devon Island, High Arctic, taken from a helicopter on July 20, 2006. [Larger panorama]
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Green Ice, Ravens, Ice Caves And The Movie “Contact”
Towards the end of our summer expedition while flying back to Eureka from our camp on Axel Heiberg, I spotted a lake with what appeared to be green ice on […]
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Devon Island Logistics Report
Haughton-Mars Project Expedition 2005: Interplanetary Supply Chain Management & Logistics Architectures: Final NASA/MIT Report “From an exploration perspective we found that HMP despite the identified differences with a Lunar or […]
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Devon Island Astrobiology Update
Mars Institute HMP Research Station Astrobiology Update 21 July 2006 Dr. Richard Lveill, Visiting Fellow in astrobiology at the Canadian Space Agency: “The first question I am investigating is did […]