How a trip to the Arctic could help researchers build better tools for planetary exploration.
More than 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle is a small island called Devon, home to the Haughton impact crater. Haughton is a cold, dry and windy Arctic desert that is nearly always light in the summer and always dark in the winter.
While it isn’t easy to get to Haughton, it is much harder to travel through space. As one might imagine, it is expensive to get things to Mars, and the opportunities to get there are limited. That’s why a Mars analog like Haughton is a great place to test new technology that could be used to explore Mars and other planets.
This is where we tested the Gamma Rotorcraft for Analog Planetary Environments mission concept, or GRAPE, which is a drone-based instrument concept that could one day search for life on other planets without relying on human guidance.
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