Rocky Strone

I chase monsters on other worlds

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Polar South camp has been a huge success. Desiccated & cold but teaming with life!

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They don't seem to mind the lifter engines at all.

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White raulicaucis giving us a send off. Already nosing round remains of camp.

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Final goodbye to this beautiful, harsh number 2 camp. Dr. Hauki & I about to step onto lifter.

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Back now at camp. We'll be moving now to our 3rd, final location in the polar south.

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Parking the multirover. In the morning a foot-trek out to the escarpment to the northwest.

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Ambling on the south edge of the canyon - 18 km wide here, twice as deep. Blue basalt running the gamut from sky blue to black.

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The multirover has four bunks. And in them tonight will be Dr. Hauki, Petra Neely, Trondheim Karu, and the extraordinary me.

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Been crawling & climbing in the multirover for 13 hours now. Are preparing to spike in, shut down for some rest (for us AND the multirover).

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Blue basalt canyons, streaked with veins of white granite. This place is stunning.

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Crawling about on the canyons this morning. Just past sunrise now. Hauki with me.

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Warming up the multirover for a jaunt down to the canyons.

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10. Seeing Keyes Navarro staggering out of the multirover hangar, staring at his severed wrist.

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9. Getting 4 mins each facetime with relations & friends back on Dakka and Argenta - for me, my incomparable mate Per Walker.

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8. Worthy Lake evening before we moved camp. Six sauropodia eta drinking, wallowing near shore - 50 meter long giants virtually silent.

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@Luchair And thank heavens!

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7. Two new paraceratopsians in the catalog. Meet Haukiceratops & Hydroceratops.

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6. Discovery of 3 distinct genetic lineages on Palul-Lar Don. One if them looking A LOT like Earth's animalia type 1!

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5. The wasip nest built by a single queen over a month in the eaves of the multirover hangar. Then the hatching swarm!

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@luchair I think he should have gone with the raulicaucis in heat story. I'd have happily doctored the paperwork for him. No showmanship.