Photo Diary
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Stuffed green peppers in the slow cooker. |

Brent Garry, geology graduate student at SUNY Buffalo, prepares for the first EVA. |

Rob Hirsh from NASA JSC continues preparing software for controlling the robots. |

Robotically Deployed Relay that the EVA Robotic Assistant (ERA) will deploy either on command or by following a preprogrammed plan. |

Robotic arm on the ERA named Boudreaux, to be used for teleoperated sampling and instrument placement. |

Liam Pedersen documents endoliths south of MDRS, to understand how a robot could find and discriminate life on Mars. |

Liam's equipment—what would tools would a robot use for this task? |

One of the more obvious examples of life growing on rocks (about 3 cm long); it took a person about 15 minutes wandering around a 3 meter diameter site to notice it. |