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On leaving FMARS, I return to my tent after
midnight.
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Oz, Samson, and Pascal in base camp.
We enjoy being back together again.
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A mark of civilization.
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"You might call this the ultimate space
camp, and in a sense, it is.
But there is more here than cosmic role playing.
The real star of this show is the science."
Miles O'Brien, CNN
July 20, 2001
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Mark's equipment is a light year beyond our
crowded, steam-filled wall-tent during HMP 1998.
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Nunavut teenagers help prepare dinner and
clean up.
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On July 20, Zubrin and two cohorts from
Phase 3 provide a moment of levity to celebrate the first Viking
landing, 25 years ago.
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Unencumbered by suits, I follow Charlie
yet again to Trinity Lake. He uses his laptop to examine the data
collected by sensors placed in and near the water.
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Memo for the record: Robotic explorers will
need to take photographs of boulder tops.
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For about two weeks at the end of July,
we have summer on Devon Island.
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Bob Nesson enjoys an unusual breakfast
outdoors.
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Andy Leibman, who manages the Discovery
documentary, "Surviving Mars," enjoys a special moment sitting with the
star of the show.
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John Blitch experiments with his
teleoperated robots.
Two months later he would be using them at Ground Zero in New York
City.
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In the last few days, I connected the
weather station by modem to a PC in the work tent--part of a deliberate
transition from observing to doing.
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A fantastic trip up the sounds along the
northern coast of Devon.
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I finally see my first polar bear, just 15
miles from camp.
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Mars explorers on Earth
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HMP 2001 Base Camp,
looking east toward Haughton Crater.
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Charlie describes a sample on our
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Charlie and Vladimir deploy a sensor
on a ridge above Trinity Lake.
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Greetings from Mars! |
