Caving in the Atacama
August 10th 2008 I have been here in San Pedro de Atacama for 3 week now. Most of this time has been spent underground mapping caves for the Earth-Mars cave detection program. The first week was spent finding caves in the region. This task was given to the mapping team, which I am the leader of. The first few days were spent figuring out which strata of rock the cave were formed in. We had directions to seven cave
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