Explorer Journals From The Past – And The Future

Keith’s note: When we return to the Moon, and then move outward to Mars and beyond, the people who visit these strange new places will write entries in their journals (or blogs) about what they saw – and how they were affected by what they saw. The following was written more than a century ago in March 1904 during Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition. A small group of explorers made the first ascent of Mount Erebus, an active volcano 12,450 feet high (3,790 m) in Antarctica. As you read this just imagine that they are about the rim of Shackleton Crater at the south pole of the Moon or a large volcano on Mars. More