{"id":2336,"date":"2017-05-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2017-05-03T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:54:06","slug":"i-explored-the-atacama-dessert-as-if-it-were-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/05\/11\/i-explored-the-atacama-dessert-as-if-it-were-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"I explored the Atacama dessert as if it were Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2091 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/ATACAMAPORTRAITTOPMOUNTAINS-002.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The art-researcher and Planetary Collegium student Benjamin Pothier joined a geological and glaciological expedition in the Chilean desert, in conditions similar to Mars. He joined a group of explorers and climbers, including astronaut candidates from the <a href=\"http:\/\/projectpossum.org\/\">PoSSUM<\/a> program, for a 15 day expedition to one of the harshest environments on Earth\u00a0and the most similar environment to \u00a0Mars on our planet.The expedition was led\u00a0by Dr Ulyana Horodyskyj, C.E.O of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceinthewild.com\/\">Science In the Wild<\/a> and a world renowned glaciologist and geologist. During the expedition the group attempted to summit\u00a0the Ojos Del Salado, the highest active volcano on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of his log book as been published online by Makery. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makery.info\/en\/2017\/04\/18\/jai-explore-le-desert-datacama-comme-si-cetait-mars-12\/?utm_content=buffer99a8c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art-researcher and Planetary Collegium student Benjamin Pothier joined a geological and glaciological expedition in the Chilean desert, in conditions similar to Mars. He joined a group of explorers and climbers, including astronaut candidates from the PoSSUM program, for a 15 day expedition to one of the harshest environments on Earth\u00a0and the most similar environment&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/05\/11\/i-explored-the-atacama-dessert-as-if-it-were-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I explored the Atacama dessert as if it were Mars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[125,152,126],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-benjamin-pothier","tag-phd","tag-planetary-collegium","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}