6h30m – Awake.
7h50m – 7h50m – 60 minutes walking: 5,6 km or 3,5 miles.
10h20m – 11h – EVA activity walking to collect more soil to a posterior analysis.
11h – Part of our crew is preparing pancakes.
12h – Camila and Brandon tried to fix the water heater, but they didn’t got.
14h30m – The crew is preparing the lunch.
15h – I just spend great part of my time reflecting about what dimensions would be considered about the sustainability study of a Mars analogue habitat. So, the following chart summarizes important key elements to be considered, evaluated in MDRS and propose some improvements about.
Chart 1 – Dimensions of the sustainability to be studied in MDRS
| Environmental Sustainability | – Activities of environmental education;
– Waste management practices; – Save water practices; – Procedures to save energy and use of renewable energy; – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| Social sustainability | – Education related to the research station management;
– Publication of reports; – Quality of life; – Equal distribution of activities between genres; – Occupational Health and Safety Policy; – Use of social media; – Code of ethics or code of conduct; – Social responsibility actions. |
| Personal sustainability | – develop personal resilience strategies to achieve goals;
– maintenance of good mental condition; – Health; – team assistance and relationship; – orientation to activities and tasks; – Feeling of satisfaction or completude. |
| Economic sustainability | – Operations and management of the simulation;
– Scientific process. |
15h30m – Lunch.
16h20m – I walked 1h40m. Today I completed 10 miles, as yesterday. An average of 8 miles by day. This is part of my experiment related with personal sustainability. Apple Watch is providing the info that I supposed had burned more than 1000 calories.
19h – CapComm.