FMARS Sponsors	Flashline Mars Mission Wraps Up Operations Reports from the field indicate that the 2004 crew of the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) had a very successful field season. The FMARS-9 crew successfully flew off Devon Island back to Resolute Bay on Monday, August 2, concluding the mission. The FMARS is located on the rim of a 20 km diameter impact crater on Canada's Devon Island, 900 miles from the North Pole. The crew, consisting of five Americans, one Canadian, one Hungarian, and one Pole, are attempting to conduct a sustained program of field exploration of the Mars-like polar desert while functioning under Mars mission operational constraints. By so doing, they are gaining essential knowledge that will help develop the set of field tactics that human explorers will need to use on Mars. Click Here to read this field season's dispatches and the Mission Summary reports. Research Objectives: The FMARS-9 team has compiled their Research Objectives. Click Here to get background information about the expedition, now underway! The Crew: The FMARS-9 crew, chosen from volunteers from around the world, will serve a 4-week rotation in the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island beginning in early July. During this time they will employ the Mars-like polar desert of Canada's Devon Island to experiment with techniques for the human exploration of Mars. The following is the crew roster: (Click on a Crew Member's Name for their Biography) Jason Held Crew Commander Blajez Blazejowski Paleontologist Ákos Kereszturi Geologist Judd Reed Computer Engineer Shannon Rupert Robles Ecologist Joan Roch Journalist Louise Wynn Journalist What Happened Last Year? Be sure to check out the archives for the 2003 Field Season! You can relive the excitement with images and reports From Here. Whats it like on Devon Island the rest of the year? It can get mighty cold in the Arctic desert! Click Here to see just how cold it got the last year near the FMARS outpost. At the end of the 2001 Field Season, a Hobo datalogger was setup to record a temperature reading every two hours. This year's crew downloaded the data 11 months later, and we have posted line graphs broken out by month.
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