Away to South America for a month...

[brian1789]

After a few years of reproposing it, last March I received notice that my combined field science/drill/rover tech demo project had won funding. We will deploy and test to the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, to study ways of drilling down to and detecting microbes in an environment analogous in many ways to parts of Mars. It

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[cyan_blue]

Oh I so know the feeling of finally relaxing into a trip on the plane, after a huge push. See you in Chile soon, and yay for your seventh continent! :D