I can't possibly fill you in on everything concerning Spaceward Bound 2009 but I can give you the website so you can check it all out.

http://www.marssociety.org.au/

Ten Days to go

The planning that goes into just a few days of one's life is unvbelievable! The preparedness to indertake that planning and preparation is easy - this is a once off opportunity to be involved in current research and data gathering - and to construct realistic resources for students.

This is amazing ! So ask me if I went running every morning for the last month so I could leap over tall mountains? I didn't but I would have if I had been here or if it hadn't been so cold! I guess I am going ot have to walk around those mountains and contemplate their rise from the desert!

For those of you who don 't know - in ten days time I am flying to Adelaide as part of the Spaceward Bound Expedition - a research based expedition into the Arkaroola area of South Australia - to investigate and gather data related to the recognition of this area as a Mars Analog site . This means it has a recognisable similarity to the Martian environment and data collected could assist in the knowledge building about Mars, the planet. We have people from America- teachers and scientists- as well as five educators from Australia and Australian scientists. What an opportunity!