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 […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 23 July 2002: Farewells, birthdays, and bartering
Marc Boucher departed from Devon Island today for Resolute. The NASA Ames Airplane team left as well. Hopefully, Marc will catch his flight from Resolute to Ottawa Wednesday morning, and […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 22 July 2002: The hottest place on Devon Island
Now that construction on the greenhouse has reached a lull, the outfitting of the structure with instrumentation so as to understand its performance is now underway. The intent here is […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 21 July 2002: Visiting ministers, missing ‘green’, and crater tours
Today we had a special group of visitors. A dozen or so environmental ministers from Denmark, the U.K. and Canada. They were on a tour of several locations throughout the […]