HMP Research Station | Haughton-Mars Project: HMP 2010: CRUX Team Meets Some Objectives

photo credit: NASA/Mars Institute/Haughton-Mars Project

Dr Perry Johnson-Green and Lauren Artman (both ecologists at CSA) conducted research at the lake bed by the weather station in the Haughton impact structure. Their traverse was supported by Ben Audlaluk from Grise Fiord.

Dr Steve Hoffman (NASA Ames), Dr Pascal Lee (Director of HMP / NASA Ames, Mars Institute, SETI Institute), Tiffany Montague (Google) and Jesse Weaver (technician) set up the Iridium Deep Field Data Transmitter at Constellation Hill, outside of the Haughton impact structure.

The CRUX drill automation team, Dr Brian Glass (Senior Scientist, Drilling Automation, NASA Ames), Dr Sarah Thompson (NASA Ames), Shannon Statham (Georgia Tech, Ph.D. student) and Mateusz Szczesiak (Honeybee Robotics), at Drill Hill, tested automated recovery from drilling faults for 3 of the 5 planned for this season, while reaching 1m depth on their first borehole. The control software and prototype drill is being proposed for a 2016 Discovery mission to the northern polar region of Mars. Another success today was the first operational field test of an extremely-compact and durable downhole imager, which returned images from several depths in the Haughton impact breccia.