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Hi Mark,

In this email I will describe quickly what I did since the beginning of
my stay here. I will describe you also some needs the field scientist
would like to have and what I saw that could be usefull. I hope this
will help you to prepare your trip.

Mainly I am working with a geologist (Oz) who is doing geologic
exploration of the crater. We made 9 trips together lasting between 3:30
hours to 7:30 hours.
His job consists in :
    finding interesting area on map or from the top of one hill
    reaching this point
    exploring the area
    gathering sample
    documenting the site

I have a detailled report of each of those trips (action, time,
distance,...). This was the first part of my job here.
We made some simulation with me as a robot. I played the following role
: site documentation, tools carrier, caretaker.

We worked in two different environments :
    -> flat with half buried colored rocks on a grey ground
    -> outcrop o the middle of hills, very difficult access,

What will be usefull for him (after discussion with Oz and facts from
the fields):
    -> something to check the surrounding area of a rock he is studying
to check is there something different,
    -> something to reach an inaccessible position of an outcrop (this
guy tend to climb all the time)
    -> a scout to find a safe path in the mud sometimes
    -> something to cover in a systematic way the ground to check rock,

If you want to discuss in more details some points I will be fine to do
that.

Nicolas