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CSA Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Sets Out for Geology Field Training in the High Arctic

2013-07-20 - Jeremy Hansen via Twitter on July 20 - Better picture of the snow bunting nest we found. Our friends in the crater!

From July 16 to 25, 2013, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is in the High Arctic to learn methods and techniques for conducting geological fieldwork that could be applied during future missions to the Moon or an asteroid. Hansen is accompanying Western University's Dr. Osinski and his team from the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration as they study the Haughton impact crater on Devon Island, Nunavut. (Credit: Canadian Space Agency)

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Photo taken on July 20, 2013

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