Some photos taken around base camp...

[compilerbitch]

The Fortress
(Photo: Haughton Mars Project/Sarah Thompson)


Solar Panels
(Photo: Haughton Mars Project/Sarah Thompson)


ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ
(Photo: Haughton Mars Project/Sarah Thompson)

Comments

[midendian.livejournal.com]

Nice! The last thing is an Inukshuk.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

That's what I said, ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ. :-)

[midendian.livejournal.com]

That's what I said, ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ. :-)

Heh. My firefox is back to rendering all non-European characters as question marks again.

[redbird]

I also got a string of question marks for that caption.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Me too on the string of question marks.

The solar panel shot is really striking -- for the angle appropriate to facing the sun up there!

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It is also rather striking to see the angle that satellite dishes need to be mounted at in order to reach satellites in GSO -- they are nearly horizontal. This has some disadvantages because the beam cuts through a lot more atmosphere, so it's much more likely to be taken out by weather.

[pinguhateseng.livejournal.com]

Ooooh!

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

:-)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Stark and lovely.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :-)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Nice! Is the Fortress a stone formation that kept standing while the surroundings were eroded? Looks a bit like the rocks in Monument Valley.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I don't think so -- I think it's an ejecta block from the impact. I will ask, though -- there are for-real geologists here. :-)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would make more sense. Please do.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I asked -- it is actually thought to be a Monument Valley-like eroded structure.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

win ;o)