MARS DESERT RESEARCH STATION

EVA Report – April 17th

EVA report 7

Date: 17/04/17

Weather: sunny, dry and hot

Temperature: around 20°C

Location: UTM NAD27 12S 4255500-518500

Duration: 120 min

Team: Damien Mertens (crew engineer), Elke Mergny (crew geologist), Calogero Montedoro (crew biologist), Mathieu Vander Donckt (crew journalist)

Purpose:

–          Mapping of two areas with a drone.

–          Telecommunication: installation of marking device that use tools to cartography the sound beacons placed next to dangerous reliefs and hence, to construct a map of risk areas

Outputs:

–          Mapping of two area’s.

–          The installation of the marking device succeeded.

–          Some interesting soil samples were collected.