Two weeks after the last humans departed from NASA Haughton Mars Project Base Camp on Devon Island, the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse continues to operate – by itself. Its operations […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 24 July 2003: Homeward Bound – In Slow Motion
We have been cooling our heels in Resolute for three days now. I am clean, have eaten 9 real meals and more or less adjusted to civilization – even if […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 21 July 2003: Departure – and One Last Dedication
I had one last thing to do before I left Devon Island. I stood on the runway and watched the Twin Otter, on which I would soon depart, swoop in […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 20 July 2003: Arctic Memorials and Starship Yearnings
Today I went out on an unusual traverse on Devon Island. Leading the way was Haughton–Mars Project (HMP) Principal Investigator Pascal Lee. Following him was “Qimmiq”, our polar bear guide […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 19 July 2003: Illness, Good Food, and Morale
I got sick a few days after arrival. Dysentery. As is often the case here, you just ignore a lot of things that you’d use as an excuse to take […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 17 July 2003: Rover Arrival
Today is the day. After a traverse across Devon Island The HMP’s Mars-1 Humvee rover is due to arrive in Base Camp later today. Earlier this season the rover was […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 13 July 2003: Very, Very Old Dirt
Finally, some cool/cold weather. Last night, just after dinner, we started to see clouds moving in from the West. They brought a drop in temperatures and a noticeable increase in […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 12 July 2003: Fixing Things
Yesterday I wrote about interactions between Devon Island and people elsewhere. These interactions usually have to do with technical issues we need to surmount.
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 11 July 2003: Staying in Touch
Once again I awoke to a nice fall day in the Eastern US – with the exception that I am in the Canadian high arctic in July. From what we […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 9 July 2003: Re-connected; Planting Seeds
After some fine-tuning of our satellite system we all have full Internet access. As I mentioned in an earlier journal entry, the task of getting this communications gear in place […]