This week we are doing dry runs for a field deployment to be held at UTIAS Nov 21-24 for a Canadian Space Agency contract led by York University. The purpose of the mission is to localize a methane spring using a spectrometer mounted on a small rover platform. We'll be testing out our procedures and equipment this week at UTIAS to make sure that we are ready for the deployment this November. If all goes well, we'll be heading up to Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian High Arctic next July to do the scenario for real at an actual methane spring called Lost Hammer. The picture shows our rover platform with one of the spectrometers.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Dry Runs for Mars Analogue Mission
This week we are doing dry runs for a field deployment to be held at UTIAS Nov 21-24 for a Canadian Space Agency contract led by York University. The purpose of the mission is to localize a methane spring using a spectrometer mounted on a small rover platform. We'll be testing out our procedures and equipment this week at UTIAS to make sure that we are ready for the deployment this November. If all goes well, we'll be heading up to Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian High Arctic next July to do the scenario for real at an actual methane spring called Lost Hammer. The picture shows our rover platform with one of the spectrometers.
