I got all of three hours of sleep last night. Before I had a chance to fall fully asleep I was awake getting ready to leave for the airport. I […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 1 Aug 2002: Departure Into Darkness
Today began like yesterday: the plane may come in to Resolute – it may not. As the morning progressed we got news that it had left Ottawa and was heading […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 31 Jul 2002: Culture Shock and Flight Delays
I awoke this morning to a slight amount of disorientation: being inside a building in a bed with a TV in front of me – not in a noisy tent […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 30 July 2002: Departure and Arrival
I got up around 6:00 this morning so as to get all of my packing out of the way. When it is your day to fly out you need to […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 29 July 2002: Showering Near The North Pole; One Last Look Around
I took a shower today – my fourth since arriving here. So long as you can wash your hands and face – and make use of the “wipes” that everyone […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 28 July 2002 Drilling Into Permafrost And Leaving Footprints For Eternity
I started the day out by drilling a dozen holes into the ground for a dozen metal anchors. One-meter lengths of rebar were then to be placed in the holes. […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 27 July 2002: Anchors and Anemometers
Last night Rob Stewart, a University of Calgary geophysicist, and his grad student, Rob Birch were out digging pilot holes in the ground to assess where the permafrost is. They will eventually […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 26 July 2002: Cold feet, chocolate, and home cooking
This morning we watched as three planes arrived – and then departed in quick succession with the Mars Society’s single small Hab crew. Our interaction with them was minimal throughout […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 25 July 2002 Russian TV, webcam privacy, and being on Mars for a few minutes
We got a call from the Mars Society Hab folks last night up on the crater rim. They had several Russian journalists from the NTV television network who were eager […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 24 Jul 2002: EVAs, movies – and ‘being here’
This afternoon several of us went out on a short excursion just outside of Base Camp. The purpose was to do a field test of some of the advanced communication […]