This past week we ran a field deployment in the MarsDome to search for a methane source using a rover. The rover moved around mapping the terrain and gathering spectrometer readings in order to narrow down the location of the source. It's a bit like playing Battleship, but with robots! Next summer we'll be heading up to Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian High Arctic to simulate this mission with a real methane source at a site called Lost Hammer Spring.
