HMP Research Station Status Report
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| copyright 2008 Mars Institute |
Neil Banerjee (University of Western Ontario) and his students, Matthew Izawa and Mike Liberty, got arctic facials in both directions of their traverse, thanks to wind and rain. He and his team had a good day, and in fact it was fairly dry most of the time they were out.
Brian Glass, Principal Investigator for the Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration project (DAME) at NASA Ames, led his crew to the hydrothermal sites to look at potential core sampling sites. The DAME crew consists of Sarah Thompson (NASA Ames), Sarah Huffman (NASA Ames), Shannon Statham (Georgia Tech) and Joanna Cohen (Honeybee Robotics). They met their goals for the day and plan to raise the DAME tent on Thursday.
The Arthur C. Clarke Greenhouse team, Matt Bamsey (CSA) and Tom Graham (University of Guelph) have finished packing up the greenhouse and are ready to depart.
Nick Wilkinson (HMP Project Manager) assisted Darlene Lim, a geobiologist and limnologist at NASA Ames, on a soggy traverse. Darlene reports that it was a very lucrative day.
After dinner, camp cooks, Mike Langenhan and Mia Bourne presented a delicious birthday cake to Brian Glass of NASA Ames. The cake was complete with fake cookie mushrooms, courtesy of one of his team members from NASA Ames who is aware of his aversion to mushrooms.
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 22, 2008
"HMP7SFU Portable Elaine out and clear"
