Our vehicles out on Red Lake Playa.
Veronica Bray and Catherine Neish on the playa.
It was really quite windy that day, as Dave Choi here can attest to.
Mike Bland chases down a rogue potato chip bag in the wind.
We found giant polygons! They are, however, much muted in relief and color from last trip.
The polygons are best seen from an elevated viewpoint.
High phase angle shot.
The polygons seem to be filled with fine-grained material, possibly from runoff pooling in them over the last 5 years.
John Keller talks about dessication polygons on Earth and in the solar system.
The day 1 campsite in the Hualapai Joshua Tree Forest.
Beautiful, but cold, as we had frost on our vehicle the next morning (though the temperature did not drop below freezing -- how this works was a question that I was asked on my orals).