Official first blog post from the Planetary Lake Lander Project. 2012

By Eric Smith

There is so much to tell you about that has happened since we arrived at our Base camp in the Chilean Andes, on the shores of the Glacial Lake Laguna Negra, at 2700 meters altitude. Its hard to tell where to start, so we’ll just start posting a little bit at a time.

One of our goals for this project, besides preparing the systems to send a robotic probe to Titan, is to share our experience in the field with you, the person checking in on this blog. So any questions you have about the project, the field team, or life in general for a group of scientists deploying robots on the side of a mountain send them in, and we’ll do our best to answer them for you.