Daily Report: Apollo Anniversary Busiest Science Day So Far
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 20, 2009
A Lunar time delay was implemented in today's medical scenario. Dr Robert Ferl and Dr Anna-Lisa Paul, both faculty at the University of Florida, took part in this tricky medical scenario, saving the life of the high-tech robotic patient, in Lunar-delayed communications with the remote doctor. Dr David Musson (MD/PhD, McMaster Univ. CSA), Bosco Law and Matt Turnock (both MSc students at McMaster Univ.) and Marcel Pigeon (physician assistant, DND) stood by and observed. There were two additional medical scenarios today as well.
Today may have been the busiest day of the season so far. There was a whirlwind of activities. A few separate traverses took place. Two traverses were to Drill Hill, led by Dr Brian Glass and Dr Sarah Thompson (both from NASA Ames). Tommy Sulluviniq (Deputy Field Camp Manager, Resolute Bay) and Ben Audlaluk (from Grise Fiord) helped to set up the drill tent. The drill was unpacked and set into place in the drill tent, ready for the second traverse after lunch when testing began. Elaine Walker (EPO, HMP, Mars Institute) joined them to take some video and interview the scientists. The Drs went back to Drill Hill after lunch with Jesse Weaver (field technician) and Ben Audlaluk (from Grise Fiord).
A traverse to House Rock, named after an Apollo rock, included Dr Tim Barfoot (PI, UTIAS), Braden Stenning (UTIAS), Laura Thomson (University of Western Ontario) and Ben Audlaluk (from Grise Fiord). The UTIAS team, Dr Tim Barfoot, Paul Furgale and Braden Stennin, took their robot on long range traverse. Pat Carle (University of Toronoto) and Marwan Hussein (systems engineer, OPTECH) did some lidar scans.
The Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse team is closing up the greenhouse for the season. Dr Stephen Braham (SFU / HMP Associate Director) has the C-Band going at twice the speed and his field assistant, Starla Talbot, assembled another wifi tower for the HMP camp. Stephen and Starla have also deployed two web cams - one in the office tent, and one outdoors pointing at the Mars-1 Humvee Rover so the world can watch as it gets the new space suit door attached.
Camp cook, Mike Langenhan, and his assistant, Dan Green, baked a wonderful Apollo 11 Anniversary cake that we enjoyed after dinner. HMP participants shared Apollo 11 memories, Dr Pascal Lee cut the first piece of cake, and we sang a Happy Birthday Apollo song. After the Apollo celebration, Dr Robert Ferl introduced his colleague, Dr Anna-Lisa Paul (both from the University of Florida) for her talk on the logistics of launching a remote experiment to the ISS. She also talked about their work looking at gene expression responses in Arabidopsis plants to environmental changes.
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 20, 2009
