I’m sitting here in Kamestastin crater.
It’s an incredible place here
in northern Canada, in Labrador.
This is just a very cool place for us to learn
about what we will find on the Moon
and to help figure out what we
will bring back from the Moon.
So, a bit noisy here. We’re on the boat on our way out
to the central uplift in the middle of Mistastin crater.
And sounds like we will find some neat stuff.
So, looking forward to it.
So, we just stopped in this area.
We have quite a bit of melt rock around.
You can see here, this is kind of what the
fresh face of the melt rock looks like.
It’s very grey, very fine-grained.
Rock has been melted and it’s
all quite homogeneous.
But then sometimes you get chunks of stuff
in the melt rock that hasn’t been melted
and you can see this very distinct white piece
in the melt and that is anorthosite.
These are some complex relationships,
but they help scientists unravel the puzzle
of what happened here in this
crater over 30 million years ago.
But it also helps us understand how
we will interpret what we find on the Moon
and what that can tell us
about the history of the Moon
and more importantly, the history of our solar system.
And a little bit more about the Universe.
Had some great exchanges with the Innu
guardians that are here in the crater with us.
It’s been really special. We spent 3 nights with
them around the campfire, sharing dinner with them
and hearing about their traditions,
how they care for this land.
And they’ve even helped us with our exploration, telling
us about where things that they’ve seen in the crater are.
So, it’s been super helpful and really special to share
in their culture a little bit. I’m very grateful for that.
All right! All packed up.
Ready to leave Kamestastin crater.
It’s been a terrific stay
and I’m sad to say I’m going.
I really enjoyed my time here.