(Photo NASA Haughton-Mars Project 2004/E. Walker)
These images accompany the personal journal of Elaine Walker who is is working on the HMP's Education and Public efforts this year.
Read Elaine's July 25 journal entry.
Note: The HMP will provide media organizations with print quality photographs when available upon request. All images must include the photo credit: Photo NASA Haughton-Mars Project 2004.
Camille Desportes de la Fosse (Institute of Science and Technology, University of Paris) is a graduate student in engineering geology and geophysics and a Mars Institute summer graduate student intern.
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On the way to the drill site, 1 mile from HMP base camp, Camille Desportes stops to observe different contexts of polygon formation linked to snow, ground ice, and melt water flow.
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On steeper slopes, Camille observes elongated polygons.
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Camille Desportes observes how polygons get elongated in the direction of the slope.
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Keith Davidson observes some confused polygons.
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Camille Desportes is not as far away from me as it appears. Perhaps it is because there are no buildings or objects in between us as a reference.
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I took a picture of the Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover wheel to reassure Pascal Lee that it was not sinking into the mud at the DAME drill site.
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Erik Mumm (Honeybee Robotics) sets up the DAME drill.
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I spotted evidence of troubleshooting at the DAME drill site.
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Honeybee Robotics' logo the DAME (Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration) drill.
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[left to right] Howard Cannon (NASA Ames), Tom Kennedy (Honeybee Robotics), and Erik Mumm (Honeybee Robotics)
set up the DAME drill at the shakedown site, 1 mile from the NASA HMP base camp.
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The Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse team is hard at work. I will wait until towards the end of this season before I bother them with my camera and myriads of questions.
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I notice cute pictures and notes on some of the coolers. The US marines have a sense of humor when they label the coolers that they deliver to Devon Island for the NASA HMP.
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The core module of the new NASA HMP base camp configuration (the HMP X-1 Station) now has all eight doors. These doors will eventually be connected to the satellite tents via enclosed tunnel walkways.
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I feel priveleged to be part of this important traverse. Pascal Lee will be searching for the best route for the Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover to get to a new test site for the DAME (Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration) drill. The HumVee will be carrying the DAME drill equipment.
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Pascal Lee (SETI Institute/Mars Institute/NASA Ames, Project Lead for the NASA Haughton-Mars Project) stands inside Haughton-Crater near the new site for the DAME drill.
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The new test site for the DAME (Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration) Project will take place on top of the grey hill, just inside the border of the Inuit Owned Land part of Haughton Crater to which the project has access this year.
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The view inside Haughton Crater, near the new DAME drilling site.
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On the flanks of Haughton Crater.
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Patterned ground inside Haughton Crater.
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The distinctive grey-colored impact breccia hills of Haughton Crater.
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On our way back, we stop along the way so that Pascal Lee can look for interesting impact shocked rocks in the stream bed.
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Pascal Lee happily collects interesting rocks in a plastic zip loc bag.
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Fossil stromatoporoids in dolomite rocks from the Silurian.
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I find another interesting specimen. Petrified gum! Not really - it is just a funny looking little rock. I ended up keeping it, only because I found it TWICE. I had thrown it rather far, then happened upon it again.
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I've found a giant chalk rock! I would have been very happy to find this as a little girl.
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The water in the streams is fresh and good to drink. That is a comforting thought.
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This is a beautiful example of the impact breccia in Haughton Crater. It is a conglomerate of all kinds of rocks broken up and rewelded haphazardly together under the immense heat and churning of the impact.
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Pascal Lee and JD Polk, MD make thier way through this icy obstacle course on the way back from the new DAME drill location. Once outside Haughton Crater, we head over to the initial shakedown DAME drill site.
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Back at the shakedown site for the DAME drill, I observe the team working hard setting up the drill from the perspective out the back of the Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover.
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