July 19, 2008 - Another Full Day at the HMP Research Station

Photos of the Day: HMP RS - July 19, 2008

[Note: Click "Read More" below for my personal journal that I am keeping as Mars Projects Manager for the Space Frontier Foundation. See MarsOnEarth.org for the daily status reports for the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) that I post as EPO for the Mars Institute.]

There were patches of crunchy snow on the ground when we stepped out of our tents this morning. It snowed all day, and was even a bit chilly for the seasoned traversers. Gordon "Oz" Osinski (UWO) and his students, Alaura Sigleton, Simon Auclai and Laura Thomson did some sampling, along with Tom Lamarche (CSA), Tim Barfoot (PI, University of Toronto) and Paul Furgale (University of Toronto) who took Lidar scans. Charles Cockell (Open University) helped Perry Johnson-Green (CSA) with some sampling of plants on a separate traverse.

Back at the Research Station, Dr. Jean-Marc Comtois (Head, Operational Space Medicine, CSA) and Dr. Christian Otto (University of Ottowa) worked on surgical telementoring. Of course it was mock surgery, using a life-like model of organs and tissue. John Schutt (HMP Base Camp Manager) gave an amazing evening lecture titled "Meteorites and Ice: The Connection" which made us even colder, seeing watching his many adventures in the Antarctic.

over and out.
-Elaine

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Elaine Walker

Mars Projects Manager
Space Frontier Foundation
marsfrontier.org