Dec 21, 2009
Haughton-Mars Project: Driving Across The Northwest Passage to Make Polar History (Devon Island, Nunavut)
HMP Research Station – An international team of researchers led by Mars Institute scientist Dr. Pascal Lee successfully reached the arctic community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada on Friday, 17 April, after an 8-day, 500 km vehicular trek on sea-ice along the fabled Northwest Passage. The team of five departed Kugluktuk, Nunavut on 10 April aboard the Mars Institute’s Moon-1 Humvee Rover and two snowmobiles, and logged a record-breaking total of 494 km, the longest distance ever driven on sea-ice in a road vehicle.
More information:
- Blog: Haughton-Mars Project.
- Website: Mars Institute.
- NPR: “Trip Across Canada’s Arctic Mimics Mars Visit” (March 17, 2009).
- NPR: “Revisiting An Expedition Across The Arctic” (Dec. 18, 2009). Click on link for audio podcast, or listen below.
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