MARS DESERT RESEARCH STATION

Sol Summary – April 25th

It began with crew wake up. Weather was partly cloudy with a 50% chance of precipitation and threatening electrical storms all day. Winds were close to 40km/hour out of north. We are still without showers and on water rations as our water supply continues to dwindle. The resupply ship was delayed and nine crew members in the habitat operating off of leftover water from the previous crew burns through the supplies fast. We are hopeful for a rapid resupply. Waste management systems are also still on backups as the primary waste system is down for repairs. That said the crew is in excellent health and enthusiastically took to our morning tasks and after a hearty breakfast and our morning briefings, we took to the rovers once more for an EVA out to Robert’s Rock Garden at Zone 12S Easting 545687 Northing 4249173. Our surveys revealed many interesting finds today including geological samples and a few samples of historical value. Upon return we had yet another unexpected incapacitating incident but our expert medical crew once again stabilized the patient and returned her safely to the habitat where she was cared for until symptoms resolved. 2 incidents in 2 days is surely no more than a coincidence.
The day then continued with a debrief of the days events and a discussion of CO2, water survival field operations, and hypoxia. Once these were done we attempted to help our water shortage by returning to the water delivery tanks from the last crew. We’d discovered a small amount of water remaining in the tanks that could not initially be drained by the pumps. Our flight engineers rigged a pump and lever system to drain the small amount of water that had been left in them into our habitat’s static tank. We were able to salvage an additional 15 gallons bringing our total potable supply up to 53 gallons. Based on WHO standards for Earth based disaster medicine and our own rationing calculations from urine output and activity level, our Health and Safety Officer estimates this will last us about 1-2 more days. We are confident this will be sufficient for the supply ship to reach us. If it does not dehydration will set in. We will become weak, lethargic, confused, and eventually die. Those with female biology will likely outlast the males but even they will not last more than 4 days without water…
We remain enthusiastic and look forward to tomorrows tasks confident that we have solved all of our problems and will have smooth sailing from here on out. Reports on operations and photos will be submitted as well.

Daily Summary April 21st

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 21APR2017

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 11

Summary Title: 12th EVA

Mission Status: Good

Sol Activity Summary:

Hab

8.00: Breakfast

10.30: Muscle wasting exercises

13.00: Lunch

GreenHab

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ScienceDome

14.00: Experiment in biology: survey of plants growth and health progress

15.00: Experiment reports redaction

16.00: Packing

EVA

11.00: UTM NAD27 12S 4253000-518500

Telecommunication relays experiment

Weather:

Sunny

Crew Physical Status:

Everyone is fine

Look Ahead Plan:

Experiment reports redaction

End Packing

Reports to be file:

Operation Report, Daily Summary Report, EVA 12 Report, Journalist Report, End of mission Report, Commander Report

Support Requested:

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Daily Summary – April 19

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 19APR2017
MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 9

Summary Title: 10th EVA
Mission Status: Good
Sol Activity Summary:

Hab
8.00: Breakfast
10.30: Muscle wasting exercises experiment
13.00: Lunch

GreenHab
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ScienceDome
Experiment in biology: survey of plants growth and health progress
Experiment reports redaction

EVA
15.00: UTM NAD27 12S 4255500-518500
Diffractometer study: sample collection

Media: pictures and movies of several areas
Weather:
Sunny and slight windy

Crew Physical Status
Everyone is fine

Look Ahead Plan:
Last EVA and concluding experiments

Reports to be file: Operation Report, Daily Summary Report, EVA 10 Report

Support Requested:
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Sol Summary – April 20th

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 20APR2017
 MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 10
Summary Title: 11th EVA
Mission Status:  Good

Sol Activity Summary:

Hab
08.00:   Breakfast
13.00: Lunch
15.00: Muscle wasting exercises experiment

GreenHab
/

ScienceDome
Experiment in biology: survey of plants growth and health progress
Experiment reports redaction

EVA
09.00: UTM NAD27 12S 4255500-518500
Diffractometer study: sample collection
Telecommunication relays experiment
Testing and installing sound beacons

Weather:  Sunny

Crew Physical Status: Everyone is fine

Look Ahead Plan: Last EVA and concluding experiments

Reports to be file: Operation Report, Daily Summary Report, EVA 11 Report, Journalist Report

Support Requested:
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Sol Summary – April 18th

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 8

Summary Title: 9th EVA

Mission Status:  Good

Sol Activity Summary:

Hab
8.00:   Breakfast
10.00: Muscle wasting exercises
13.00: Lunch

GreenHab
/

ScienceDome
Experiment reports redaction

EVA
10.30: UTM NAD27 12S 4251500-518500
Telecommunication relays test
Diffractometer study: data collection

Weather:
Sunny and strong wind

Crew Physical Status
Everyone is fine

Look Ahead Plan:
EVA + Experiments

Reports to be file: Operation Report, Daily Summary Report, Commander Report, EVA 9 Report

Support Requested:

Sol Summary – April 17th

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 17APR2017

 

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 7

 

Summary Title: 7th and 8th EVA

 

Mission Status:  Good

 

Sol Activity Summary:

 

Hab

8.00:   Breakfast

13.00: Lunch

14.30: Preparation of the last telecommunication relays’s EVA

 

GreenHab

/

 

ScienceDome

Experiment reports redaction

Muons experiment: tests on the scintillator

 

EVA

9.00 UTM NAD27 12S 4255500-518500

X-ray diffraction study: collection of data

Positioning of sound beacons for mapping of dangerous area

Topography mapping

 

14.00: UTM NAD27 12S 4251500-518500

Topography mapping

Issue with the probe

 

Weather:

Sunny

 

Crew Physical Status

Everyone is fine

 

Look Ahead Plan:

EVA + Experiments

 

 

Reports to be file: Operation Report, Daily Summary Report, Journalist Report, HSO Report

 

Support Requested: /

Sol Summary – April 16th

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 16APR2017

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 6

Summary Title: Sixth EVA

Mission Status:  Good

Sol Activity Summary:

Hab
8.30:   Breakfast
13.00: Lunch
16.00: Muscle wasting experiment: cardio exercise session
18:30: Daily group meeting
19:00: CapCom
20:30: Dinner

GreenHab
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ScienceDome
/

EVA
10.30 UTM NAD27 12S 4255500-518500
Media: pictures and videos of north area
Telecommunication relays experiment

Weather:
Sunny

Crew Physical Status
Everyone is fine

Look Ahead Plan:
EVA + Experiments

Reports to be file: Operations Report, Daily Summary Report, Commander Report, EVA #6 report

Support Requested:
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Sol Summary – April 15th

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 15APR2017

 

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 5

 

Summary Title: Fifth EVA

 

Mission Status:  Good

 

Sol Activity Summary:

 

Hab

8.30:   Breakfast

11.00: Muscle wasting experiment: exercise session

12.30: Lunch

 

GreenHab

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ScienceDome

14.00: End setup recycling experiment. 

 

EVA

14.00 UTM NAD27 12S 4247631-519930

Ground penetrating radar experiment : data collection

Topography Geomatic study: fixing probe

Mapping of dangerous areas with the use of probes

 

Weather:

Sunny

 

Crew Physical Status:

Everyone is fine

 

Look Ahead Plan:

EVA + Experiments

 

 

Reports to be file: Operation Report , Daily Summary Report, HSO Report, Journalist Report

 

Support Requested:

Information about water consumption

Bottom part of the hab outside repair

What sould we do with the inside toilet ?

Sol Summary – April 14th

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 14APR2017

 

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 4

 

Summary Title: Setups for several experiments and fourth EVA

 

Mission Status:  Good

 

Sol Activity Summary:

 

Hab

8.30 : Breakfast at 8.30

10.00: Muscle wasting experiment: exercise session

12.30: Lunch

 

GreenHab

9.30: Watering rice plants for recycling experiment

 

ScienceDome

10.30: Setup recycling experiment : hydroponic solution with different urea concentrations and plants setting in the incubator.  

 

EVA

16.30 UTM NAD27 12S 4251500/518500

Ground penetrating radar experiment : data collection

Topography Geomatic study : data collection

Omnidirectional telecommunication relays : installation of a first relay

Media: pictures and videos of the different activities

Issues : ATV (out of gas) and faulty probe

 

Weather:

Sunny and slightly windy

 

Crew Physical Status

Everyone is fine

 

Look Ahead Plan:

EVA + Experiments

 

 

Reports to be file: Operation Report , Daily Summary Report, HSO Report, Astronomy Report, Journalist Report

 

Support Requested:

Musk Observatory : procedure to align mirrors

Sol Summary – April 13th

Crew 178 Daily Summary Report 13 APR 2017

MDRS Daily Summary Report for sol 3

Prepared by: Aurian d’Avernas, Commander, Crew 178

Summary Title: Third EVA, fixing water issues and preparations of experiments

Mission Status:  Good

Sol Activity Summary: See Commander Report

Look Ahead Plan: We will perform an EVA for 4 experiments and try to fix restroom and water heater issues.

Anomalies in work:  Inside restroom present problems, while the outside one fell down due to heavy gusts of wind.

Weather: Sunny and windy

Crew Physical Status: Good

EVA: In the North UTM NAD27 425300 – 518000

Reports to be file: Commander Report + Daily Summary Report + Journalist Report + Engineer Report + EVA report + EVA request

Support Requested: Need assistance for restrooms and the water heater issues (see Engineer report)