On this day at Haughton Crater...

[jay]

For a lark, I've pulled up links to what was going on in my journal every year on July 27:

Day off for laundry and medical issues in camp, today in 2008.

Tired and dusty after a walkback test to the west, in 2007.

It was the day of the crowning demonstration of DAME in 2006...

I was taped for a Discovery Channel documentary, in 2005.

Weather was miserable in our first DAME drilling out on Von Braun Planitia, driving back through sleet in 2004.

A medical emergency back in camp kept us from exploring a magnetic anomaly, in 2003.

In 2002, we were comparing the geology performance of humans in spacesuits to rovers... working at the same hydrothermal chimney site as this year.

Comments

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Looking through Flickr, i wonder what radiation risk is being monitored. (It's obviously not like working at a lab because an individual's exposure could vary widely from the point where such a device was installed. Any point-like geologic sources seem like they would cause different individual exposures due to different durations at different ranges.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

At our site, the open-air flux 30m from our equipment was 252 nSv/hour...

[blurofego.livejournal.com]

I had a moment of geek love there, good thing you are not a book nerd!

This is pretty cool stuff. I imagine your kids have a blast when you help them with science projects!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grin) they like to drag me to class and show me off to their classmates... and we do well on science projects.

I'm not really a geek, I just do geeky things in real-life?

[blurofego.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, Dear... Geeks and nerds are cool and sexy now. (Thank goodness!!!)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Nice retrospective!

What was the magnetic anomaly in 2003? Did you ever get another opportunity to investigate it, or to see the beautiful unnamed river again?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Our 2001 aerial magnetic survey showed a large magnetic high, about 20km west of our base camp. I later got gravity stations there, but not until a helicopter ride in 2005. The river was named... Telemedicine River. ;-)