HMP Research Station | Haughton-Mars Project: HMP Research Station Status Report

On this day in 1976, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of Mars. Stephen Braham (HMP Associate Director) reminded us to take some moments to remember this at the brunch meeting.

The helicopter came in this morning. Gordon "Oz" Osinski (UWO) and his student, Simon Auclair, along with Neil Banerjee (UWO) and his students, Matthew Izawa and Mike Liberty, were in the first helicopter flight of the day. The second flight took Oz and students, Laura Thomson, Alaura Singleton and Matthew Izawa to the "Valley of Oz" and looked at geomorphological features for Laura.

Closer to the HMP Research Station, Tim Barfoot (PI, University of Toronto) and his PhD student, Paul Furgale, went out with the stereo camera just beyond Tent City and took another set of landscape photos [more than this photo journalist can fathom -ew] and other measurements. Charles Cockell (Open University) traversed to house rock. The Arthur C. Clarke Greenhouse is going through the checklist, preparing to close it down for the season.

Photo Set: HMP RS - July 20, 2008

"HMP7SFU Portable Elaine out and clear"