Situated on Devon Island, Haughton crater in Canada is a key research site for studying meteor impacts and serves as a Mars analog for scientists.

Modular summer tents are set up at the 14-mile-wide Haughton impact crater, one of the northernmost craters on the planet. But even NASA’s best-equipped teams avoid the island’s brutal winters.

Haughton Crater, located in the Canadian Arctic, is 23 million years old and serves as a research site for studying Mars-like environments. The stark, remote beauty of this impact site draws ...

The island’s Haughton impact crater is a focal point for these studies. The harsh, cold environment and the island’s isolation make it an ideal location for such research, ...

Located near Flagstaff, Arizona, Meteor Crater, also known as Barringer Crater, is a large meteorite impact crater. This remarkable natural phenomenon is one of the most well-preserved craters of ...

The team spent 15 days at Haughton Crater on Canada’s Devon Island deploying autonomous drones to make maps and find sites that might be perfect for collecting research samples.

On the huge uninhabited Devon Island, you’ll find Haughton Crater, which formed 23-32 million years ago when a 2-kilometer object struck the earth. Today, ...

NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee. Nearly 60 years ago, ... Lee said his project normally does its testing at a meteorite impact crater on a remote island in the Arctic, ...

Figure 2:NASA Haughton-Mars Project field test of new technologies for human Moon and Mars science and exploration in Oregon. Shown here is spacesuit engineer Jake Rohrig in the Collins Aerospace ...

Researchers with the Haughton-Mars Project were unable to travel to Devon Island in Nunavut's High Arctic for the first time in 24 years because of COVID-19, but their mission to Mars continues.

An excellent example of this is at the Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Nunavut, where 3 billion old rocks (gneisses) of the Canadian Shield — which are typically dense and non-porous — were ...

He is also chairman of the Mars Institute and director of the NASA Haughton Mars Project at NASA’s Ames ... Philolaus Crater following the large impact that created the crater,” he ...