When it comes to exploration, there’s nothing like being there. Yet at some point, all explorers need to tell others what they have seen – as well as find a […]
Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine
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NAI Explores Most Active Volcanic Region on Earth & Brings the Public Along
NAI investigators, led by Jake Maule of the CIW Team, are exploring the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia. Kamchatka is a vast land of ‘fire and ice’, being home to […]
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AMASE 2006 Updates
Kirsten Fristad’s NASA Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Field Reports “I stand at the window looking out over Sassenfjord. Our trip has come to an end. The sky is cool […]
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NASA Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition Field Report: Getting Samples – 11 August 2006
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 […]
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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 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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McGill Arctic Research Station (M.A.R.S.) Weather Video
Dale Andersen: The Campbell Scientific met station (automated weather station) we installed last April at M.A.R.S includes an enclosed digital camera (CC640) that is programmed to acquire two images per […]