This year marks the 5th AMASE expedition led by Hans Amundsen (Expedition leader EPX) and Andrew Steele (Science leader - CIW). It promises to be another intense 3 weeks in the arctic field areas that we use as a martian analogue. As in previous years a wealth of people and instruments from across the US and Europe will gather in Longyearbyen before taking the research vessel Lance (http://www.npolar.no/lance/) for the 2 » read more