July 28, 2011
Pascal, Kira and I make a trek out to her experiment site. It's about 1/2 mile from camp ( as the crow flies). Kira has inserted sensors into undisturbed (no previous activity has been done here) ground at 7 1/2 inches and 11 inches to monitor temperature and CO2 content.
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| The surface is very dusty however it will take over a year for the footprints to disappear. |
Then we headed out to an area called Anderson Pass. Thousands of year ago this area was filled with water encased by ice walls. When the ice walls broke the water flow cut valleys. What was left behind includes coral rocks.
This pass is named after one of the Columbia astronauts who died the 2003 disaster. Throughout the area the HMP camp participants have built monuments to all 7 astronauts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
At the base of each Columbia "Stone Man" is a jar containing a logo from the Columbia mission, an HMP sticker and a biography of the astronaut.
For these monuments the "men" are life size or larger unlike the ones at the airport.
I will be coming back to these Stone Men in another blog after I do some research and talk to Ben
Views From Anderson Pass
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| One of many "hills" our next stop |
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| View from the top pf the hill |
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| Looking very much like a Martian landscape |
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| Small rock ( 3inches high) splitting from freezing/thaw cycle |
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| Larger rocks 4 feet square splitting by freezing/thaw cycles\ |
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| The valley floor |
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