Daily Report: Dr Brian Glass (NASA Ames) Arrives Along With Several Others
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 19, 2009
A twin otter flight came in this morning with several new participants. Research activities, namely NASA activities, will be ramping up in this third quarter of the season. Starting on the 20th, which is the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, our HMP activities will get the prominent spot on NASA's Analog website!
We welcomed incoming HMP participants, Dr Tim Barfoot, Paul Furgale, Braden Stenning and Pat Carle (all from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies), Laura Thomson (University of Western Ontario) and Marwan Hussein (systems engineer, OPTECH). They will be working together on various aspects with a rover equipped with lidar and other capabilities.
Also arriving today was Dr Brian Glass (Senior Scientist, Drilling Automation, NASA Ames). He and Dr Sarah Thompson (NASA Ames) will be experimenting with the automated CRUX drill, to gain more knowledge in drilling automation for Mars exploration.
Dr. Brian Glass and Dr. Sarah Thompson traversed to Drill Hill to review the site for this season and asses where to install the CRUX drill. Tommy Sulluviniq (Deputy Field Camp Manager, Resolute Bay) and Ben Audlaluk (from Grise Fiord) came along to help, and [yours truly] Elaine Walker (EPO, Mars Institute) came along to get some video footage and interview the scientists.
The lidar team, Pat Carle (University of Toronoto) and Marwan Hussein (systems engineer, OPTECH), took several lidar scans near the HMP camp in order to understand the capabilities of the systems depending on the material of the ground.
Jesse Weaver (field technician) helped Dr. Pascal Lee (Director, HMP / NASA Ames, Mars Institute, SETI Institute) attach some new decals to the Mars-1 Humvee Rover.
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 19, 2009
