(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 27 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.
View of the NASA HMP base camp: [left to right] The Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse, the orange dome tent, the office tent, the core of the HMP X-1 Station, the long white mess tent, and the two bathroom tents [far right].
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"Tent City" where we sleep "at night" (it never gets dark in the summer). My tent is the orange and grey tent in the foreground.
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More sleeping tents in the suburbs of "Tent City". Von Braun Planitia in the background.
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This is a view towards the "downtown area" of the NASA HMP base camp from my sleeping tent. The Mars Institute Mars-1 HumVee rover is on the horizon.
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My tent was erected on a slope (unwittingly, of course) so I turned my bed almost all the way sideways, as far as it would go so that my head would be at the high point. It sure beats rolling sideways off my bed onto the cold ground.
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Howard Cannon (NASA Ames) is still fitted with the CPOD and electrodes for the Autonomous Medical Care Initiative, a collaborative project between NASA Ames, NASA Glenn, and NASA Johnson Space Center.
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Sekou Crawford (NASA Ames) checks on the electrodes attached to Howard Cannon's (NASA Ames) chest and abdomen, the pulse oximeter on his index finger, and the CPOD.
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Today we had shotgun training! All NASA HMP Participants receive shotgun training in case of a polar bear encounters. Polar bears are the top of the food chain in the Arctic!
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Gordon "Oz" Osinski (a geologist from the Planetary Science Institute) leads the shot gun training session for the newcomers.
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Gordon "Oz" Osinski [left] and Samson Simeonie (Deputy Base Camp Manager for the NASA HMP/Canadian Ranger) provide shotgun training.
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Shotgun training session participants [left to right] Katia Clarens (Le Figaro Magazine), Ron Sidgreaves and David Rosenbush (both of Hamilton Sundstrand), Erik Mumm and Tom Kennedy (both of Honeybee Robotics), Sathya Hanagud and Massimo Ruzzene (both of Georgia Tech), Elaine Walker, Samson Simeonie, and Gordon "Oz" Osinski
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Mark Stevenson (CNN) records the shotgun training session.
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A view of the NASA HMP base camp from Maynard Hill.
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A view of the Fortress from Maynard Hill. The Mars Institute Mars-1 HumVee rover is visible to the left of the Fortress.
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The NASA HMP base camp's "Tent City" at the foot of Husband Hill.
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The Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover outfitted with regular all-terrain tires for rocky terrain.
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Pascal Lee asks, "Would you like a NASA mint?" during a short break on our field traverse.
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Mark Stephenson (CNN).
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The new DAME drill site is being set up on top of an impact breccia hill inside Haughton Crater.
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Erik Mumm (Honeybee Robotics) inside a white dome tent, which is now serving as the support base for the DAME drill.
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The DAME drill motors.
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A DAME drill rod.
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Sathya Hanagud (School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) watches as Mark Stevenson (CNN) films at the DAME drill site.
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The DAME drill penetrates the regolith-like Haughton impact breccia.
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Pascal Lee (NASA HMP Project Lead) and Sathya Hanagud (Georgia Tech) monitor the successful progress of the DAME drill in action.
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Brian Glass (NASA Ames), PI of the DAME drilling experiment, finds space within the tarp.
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Camille Desportes de la Fosse (Institute of Science and Technology, University of Paris) looks at periglacial features at the new DAME drill site on impact breccia deposits.
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The Mars Institute Mars-1 HumVee Rover, parked at the boundary of Inuit Owned Land, is viewed from the new DAME drill site.
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A bird has taken advantage of polygon cross lines to establish its nest.
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View out the front window of the Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover.
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