Interesting fractures in mudstones

Deep Dust drill rig at dawn

Leandro capping sections from today's run

Just passed 1000 feet (~305 m) of core recovered

Microbiology Sampling

Night time inspection

Morning Sectioning

Full inspection

What's inside the core?

Daytime Section Cutting

Overhead operations

40 feet (~12 m) of core!

Bringing in the team!

Schlumberger was onsite today logging the first 1000 feet of the well. Next we clean the borehole...

Science Party's first day on the rig.

We are fully rigged up and the well has spudded.

Auger preparing for the conductor pipe.

Heavy equipment was mobilized to the drill site this week and is prepping the drill pad. Looking...

A team of the project came to Potsdam for the Sample & Data Management training to learn and...