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21 June 2008
The Great Canadian Adventure – Part 2: Gypsumville and Salt Springs
After our trip to the mine tailings, we headed to the remains of an ancient 40 km impact crater. The crater is totally invisible, but the rocks tell the story plain as day. Our first stop was just outside the town of Gypsumville. We drove through swampy, bumpy back roads into the middle of nowhere and stopped next to an unassuming patch of rock and gravel. At first it didn’t …
20 June 2008
The Great Canadian Adventure: Part 1 – The Price of Gold
After our trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park, where we compared dunes on Earth to those on Mars, we flew up north to Winnipeg, Canada. There we met up with a bunch of geologists and spent three days exploring a bunch of interesting sites in Manitoba. The first site was an old mine tailings dump from a gold mine in the area. When mining for gold, the rocks are …
Carnival of Space #59
Hey everyone, I’m back from my Great Canadian Adventure (more on that later) just in time for the Carnival of Space over at Green Gabbro. For those of you who are not up on the lingo, a Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained igneous rock. Hooray for geologists who like space!
14 June 2008
Which is Earth?
We had another great day at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve today, with lots of pictures, but it also involved a lot of hiking and I’m tired. So instead of a full post, I will refer you to my adviser’s post about our first day at the dunes, over at the Planetary Society blog. I’m also stealing the image that he posted over there, comparing granule ripples on …
13 June 2008
Carnival of Space #58
The 58th carnival of space is up at Universe Today! Go check it out!
Sand Dunes!
Greetings folks! I’ve been silent for a few days because I am in the midst of a lot of traveling. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week I was at a team meeting for the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and Context Camera (CTX). Rather than spend a lot of time explaining what that means, I will do what I always do and link to the planetary society blog. My adviser …
6 June 2008
Carnival of Space #57
It’s that time of week again. The carnival of space is up, over at Out of the Cradle, and apparently this one is “for the ladies”.
The Big Picture
This news is a few days old, but it’s so cool I had to share it. At the American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference this week, astronomers have unveiled a 55 meter long infrared image of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The image is a mosiac of more than 800,000 images from the Spitzer space telescope. Forget the “Megapixels” you’re used to hearing about for your digital camera. This bad boy …
3 June 2008
Phoenix can dig it, can you?
Check it out: Phoenix has successfully broken ground on Mars, and the arm camera has proof in vivid color! Notice that there is some white stuff, even in this first scoop. Is it salt? Is it ice? Is it Something Else? Nobody knows… stay tuned.
