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Click here to follow along with Elaine Walker's personal adventures on Devon Island this season with the Haughton-Mars Project during the months of July and August, 2008!
Click here for her daily status reports as EPO for the Mars Institute, including photos, videos and science reports.
Background: Elaine Walker took part in the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) in 2003 and 2004 and is currently on Devon Island for the 2008 field season doing Education & Public Outreach for the Mars Institute. Her stay this field season is from July 13 through August 15, 2008.
Click here to read her photo journal from the 2003 field season, as a representative of the Space Frontier Foundation.
Click here to read her official photo journal for the Mars Institute for the 2004 field season.
"Martians" by ZIA. Filmed on Devon Island for the NASA HMP in 2003.
Space Frontier Foundation Mars Projects
The NASA HMP's Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse, sponsored by SpaceRef.com, hosted a research experiment led by Dr. Alain Berinstain (Canadian Space Agency/University of Guelph).
An arial shot of Devon Island. The grey-ish hills are the famous breccia deposits of Haughton Crater.
The DAME drill is made for NASA by Honeybee Robotics, who also built the Rock Abrasion Tool on the current Mars Exploration Rovers
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Elaine is the Education and Public Outreach coordinator for the Mars Institute, and the Mars Projects Manager for the Space Frontier Foundation.
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Background:
In 2003 Elaine was commissioned by the NASA HMP to record a music video on Devon Island to promote the idea of humans living on Mars. "Martians" is the title track for ZIA's new CD which was officially released at the XPrize Cup in Las Cruces, NM in 2006. The "Martians" video enjoys thousands of plays on YouTube, Myspace, and Blip.tv.
In 2003 Elaine kept a photo journal during the field season as a representative of the Space Frontier Foundation.
Read it here!
In 2004 Elaine was the official photo journalist for the NASA HMP during the field season. Elaine's 2004 photo journal is posted at marsonearth.org.
Read it here! (scroll down to "Education and Public Outreach Personal Journal - by Elaine Walker")
During the 2008 field season Elaine will travel to Devon Island again to coordinate Education and Public Outreach efforts for the Mars Institute as well as education outreach for Space Frontier Foundation, reaching out to grade school kids. Stay tuned!
These photos are from the 2003 Field Season at Devon Island with the NASA Haugton-Mars Project. Photos by Elaine Walker, property of Mars Institute.