EVA Report:

SOL: 9

Date: 24/01/2017

Person filling out the report: Roy Naor

Crew members involved in the EVA: Roy Naor, Richard Blake, Niamh Shaw.

EVA leader: Roy Naor

Begin: 2:00pm

End: 4:35 pm

Type of EVA: Walking + ATV 350, ATV 350, ATV 4X4

Purpose: : Collecting regolith and soil samples from various localities in MDRS vicinity to test 3D printing project and for pH and salinity as candidates suitable for crops.

UTM Coordinates: Northing : 4250100  Easting :  518000 Zone : 12 S

Summary: We climbed up the Kissing camel ridge and collected silicified conglomerate for further analysis. Later on we collected the common red regolith that accumulates as the Brushy Basin topsoil to use in our ISRU 3D printed blocks test. We ended up climbing to radio ridge for the Dakota sandstone regolith and sampled it to use in in the ISRU project. A second bag of regolith was also collected to be tested for pH and salinity. This is to determine whether the regolith could be a future candidate for GreenHab soil.