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Large -- Medium The students were surveying a great columnar site west of Clarkston, WA. |
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Large -- Medium Typical shot of the surveying. |
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Large -- Medium Sallie (left) is a Co-I on the RSESTEP program that builds these remote-controlled aircraft with cameras for science education purposes. |
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Large -- Medium Looking at the equipment. |
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Large -- Medium Our airplane pilots, Don and Mike (back). And the Student PI's, Josh and Neil, kneeling. |
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Large -- Medium Looking at the live data downlink from the airplane. |
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Large -- Medium In flight. |
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Large -- Medium After the first landing. |
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Large -- Medium Changing out the battery for the second flight. |
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Large -- Medium Here's the hexacopter, a sweet 6-pound UAV with a camera on it, high-speed downlink, and radio control. |
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Large -- Medium The hexacopter up in the sky -- Sun at bottom. |
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Large -- Medium Way up at the top of the outcrop. |
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Large -- Medium Casey (center) guides the hexacopter to a soft landing while Josh (left) and Brian (right) look on. |
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Large -- Medium Dr. Schulz describes the igneous petrology of basalts. |