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[compilerbitch]

Dry Stream
(Photo: Haughton Mars Project/Sarah Thompson)


From base camp
(Photo: Haughton Mars Project/Sarah Thompson)


Base camp
(Photo: Haughton Mars Project/Sarah Thompson)

Comments

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

You look like you're in a Dr Who alien landscape! Wow.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think this looks more realistic than any Dr Who set. :oP
In Dr Who you can usually tell it's in a quarry or similar somewhere, the first shot does indeed look rather alien.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Something that's hard to get across in a photograph is the *scale* here -- oddly, Meteor Crater in AZ looks *big* in photos, but it's 1.2km across, whereas Haughton Crater is 20km across. Subsequent erosion has made it look less 'cratery', which doesn't help, but still...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods* By the looks of it, there aren't many reference points like mountains in the distance, either.

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

I (and most folks up here) lose my sense of perspective up here - there's nothing to provide it. No trees, no people, etc. It's a very strange sensation.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I can imagine.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Last year, a team from Ames brought two robots with them of the K10 series. Which, of course, are the generation after the K9. Which, oddly enough, also supplied some of the infrastructure in software terms for the robotic drill I work on.

I'm expecting Cybermen at any moment.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, brilliant.