exploring new places

Our helicopter traverse on Sunday is chronicled over here as a local story on a CBS affiliate.

And as the first person to visit those particular areas.... I have naming rights. :) After consultation here, I've proposed that the broad orange-red plain be called Korolev Planitia (we use some Mars conventions in the namespaces) in honor of the father of Russian rocketry. JJ thought this was okay, as well. And that the small canyon be named for my father. :)

( photos of each )

rolling

Got IOL access just now, just for today, executive override from the agency head in Iqaluit. Plane comes in 9 hours. Going to roll into the crater and get the gravity data anyway, then some work with the spacesuit, then try to make the plane...

there and back again

Got the data, got stuck in mud, got wet, got back, got a plane to Resolute arriving in 30 minutes. Signing off from Devon Island, for this year. :)