How Hamilton students mapped lava tubes in Iceland using a drone named Canary

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The team says they plan to share the maps they made, as well as a report on the expedition

A McMaster University research team says despite rain and colder-than-expected weather, their expedition to Iceland was a success and they were able to map lava tubes with the drone-mounted system they developed.

As CBC Hamilton reported in July, the McMaster Deep-space Analogue Research Expedition (DARE) team spent a year planning an expedition to unnamed lava tubes near the popular Surtshellir lava cave to test their technology.

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