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Mars on Earth 2004

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Photo Report - August 1, 2004 - Devon Island

(Photo NASA Haughton-Mars Project 2004/E. Walker)

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.

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This morning I walked with Ron Sidgreaves [left] and David Rosenbush [right] (both of Hamilton Sundstrand) through "Pete Conrad Valley" behind Tent City, through a network of valleys, to get some good exercise for the day.
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Elaine Walker (HMP Public Outreach Field Officer) practices some Tae Kwon Do side kicks. It is good to keep one's blood moving in this climate!
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The back country terrain in Pete Conrad Valley, near the NASA HMP base camp.
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The Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover can be seen in the distance (center of photo).
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The Lowell Canal from which the NASA HMP base camp draws its water.
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A water pump line runs from the Lowell Canal to the NASA HMP base camp.
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Even this desolate-looking landscape offers plenty of opportunity for life to exist.
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Two flat tires on one ATV... Samson Simeonie (Deputy Base Camp Manager for the NASA HMP/Canadian Ranger) is fixing them.
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This evening the fog rolled in.
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The construction of the NASA HMP base camp's core module is almost complete. Next summer, the project's tent modules will be permanently connected to the core.
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The Mars Institute's Mars-1 HumVee Rover and ATVs.
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Randy, Robby, and Rhoda (High School students from Grise Fiord) are having a towel fight with Alexis Lussier-Desbiens (yellow blur) after they've finished drying the dishes, while Paula Lindgren (graduate student, University of Aberdeen) looks on.
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Rick McCluskey, MD (NASA JSC flight surgeon) gave a talk this evening about the toxicity of Moon and Mars dust in relation to the health of astronauts.


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