Posted by tourdemars to Technology at March 24, 2004 05:21 PM

NASA has hired a Yukon-based drilling company to design a drill for missions to Mars. Erik Blake, the president of Icefield Instruments in Whitehorse, has 12 years of experience designing drills for research on glaciers and icefields. Two years ago, a NASA team in Houston contacted Blake to buy a drill for the Red Planet.