July 3 Status:
The field season is underway.
This is the 7th year of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) a multidisciplinary investigation to study the Haughton crater on Devon Island, Nunavut Territory, in the Canadian arctic.

Radar image of the Haughton crater.

Haughton Crater

Airborne synthetic apeture radar image of Haughton Crater acquired in 1998 by the Intera STAR X-band radar system. The width of the scene is 36 km. Image courtesy Geological Survey of Canada. North is to the top and the crater is about 20 km wide. Note that the Haughton River breaches the crater rim to the northeast and flows into Thomas Lee Inlet.

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