Summer on Mars? For Summer Research students Sean Messenger ’15, Samuel Yim ’14, Katherine Yang ’15, Alberto Ruiz ’14 and Shreyasha (Sasha) Paudel ’14, one method of search- ing for life on Mars involved a trip to the Mojave Desert and the Mars-like Pisgah Crater. With professors Greg Lyzenga ’75 (physics), Chris Clark (engineering) and ad- junct assistant professor Michael Storrie-Lombardi P13 (physics), the students fi eld tested a robot that uses intelligent pattern recognition to obtain optical biosignatures. This information is used to determine the presence of living organisms in rock. A joint effort by HMC’s physics and engineering departments and the Kinohi Institute, the project served as a proof of concept for autonomous, cooperative rovers navigating, mapping and searching for life in Martian caves. View the video of their July expedi- tion at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKFKQuPW2A&feature=youtu.be .


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