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Art Collection: Pole Within Reach |
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The Pole within Reach
This pastel depicts an expedition emerging from the Chasma Boreale, a large deeply cut valley in the Martian north polar cap, in preparation for a final assault on the Martian geographic North Pole. They have already travelled 500 km across the Martian north polar cap. Copyright status : Earth and Space Foundation About the Artist
Charles Cockell is Chairman of the Board of the Earth and Space Foundation and President of the Association of Mars Explorers. Dr. Cockell has led or participated in many expeditions around the world with different organizations, including the British Antarctic Survey, NASA, the U.S. Antarctic Program, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1990, he led the first western expedition to visit post-communist Mongolia. His team discovered many new plant and animal species as it covered 2,500 kilometers across the steppes. In 1993, Dr. Cockell led an expedition to Indonesia, where he piloted an insect collecting ultra-light aircraft above the rainforest canopy. More recently, he has served as Lead Biologist for the NASA Haughton-Mars Project, a NASA Mars analog project in the Canadian High Arctic. Dr. Cockell received his first degree in Biochemistry from Bristol University and his doctorate in Molecular Biology from Oxford University. He was a National Academy of Sciences Associate at the NASA Ames Research Center in California for two years, and spent two years as a Visiting Scientist at Stanford University and the University of Arizona. Dr. Cockell is an alumnus of the International Space University's 1991 summer session, where he co-authored a human Mars mission design project. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York, the British Interplanetary Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. He was a 1993 Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and recipient of the 1993 Pol Roger Award. He is a research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. All images in the Foundation's collection are copyright to the artists or the Foundation. Reproduction of these images is not allowed without permission (in some cases permission for reproduction can be obtained directly from the artists who maintain reproduction copyright). These images are low resolution versions of the originals. |
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