Haughton-Mars Project

September 11, 2007

HMP on Discovery Channel Canada

This past field season, a team from Discovery Channel Canada visited the HMP Research Station and gathered material for several pieces to be aired on Daily Planet.

Three pieces are scheduled to run this week on Daily Planet (Canada only), featuring the EVA Walkback experiment (Sept. 11th), the NASA K-10 rovers from the Ames Research Center (Sept. 12th) and the telemedicine work being done at HMP (Sept. 13th).

Daily Planet can be seen on Discovery Channel Canada at 7pm and 11pm (Eastern). Note that due to the news-magazine style of the Daily Planet, breaking news and other events may cause changes to the original scheduling.

Also, anyone in Canada can watch these episodes online about a day following the original TV air date.

Posted by Nick WIlkinson at 12:44 PM

August 27, 2007

John Schutt in the New York Times

On August 25th, John Schutt (HMP Base Camp Manager) was featured in an article in the New York Times for his distinguished service to the ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) program. Earlier this month John was the recipient of the Meteoritical Society's Service Award for his work guiding scientists in the Antarctic over the past 25 field seasons, since 1980. Read the full article here.

Everyone at the Haughton-Mars Project would like to congratulate John on this most prestigious honor.

Posted by Nick WIlkinson at 10:40 PM

August 21, 2006

HMP Research Station in the Chicago Tribune

In today's edition of the Chicago Tribune writer Howard Witt, who visited the HMP Research Station last month, has written an article on his adventure titled "Devon Island like no place on Earth". Here's an excerpt;

"A human mission to Mars might be 30 years away or more, but one day it will happen," said Pascal Lee, 43, the NASA astronomer who first visited this place a decade ago and supervises the Haughton-Mars Project, as the program is known. "The fundamental lessons we are learning here need to be learned now. On the moon and Mars, it's going to be all about fieldwork, geology, reconnaissance, resource assessment, traversing vast tracts of territory--all of this stuff we do on a daily basis here."

Editor's update - Dec. 20: After a week the Chicago Tribune archives their stories and you have to pay to read it.

Posted by Marc Boucher at 11:51 AM | Comments (0)