Crew members: Sophie Wuyckens (EVA leader), Frédéric Peyrusson, Mario Sundic, Michael Saint-Guillain and Martin Roumain
Purposes:
– Samples checking by Fred
– Samples collection + positioning of new samples by Martin
– If weather is ok, positioning of Sophie’s detector outside for data acquisition
– Michael in support
– Pictures by Mario
Operations:
9:30 – Crew get dressed
9:35 – Paparazzi session by Ariane and Maximilien
9:39 – Entering the airlock
9:42 – Outing
9:43 – Burning of our rubbish by Mario and Sophie + Fuel filling of the ATV1 by Mick + Samples checking by Fred
9:50 – Discovery : rovers haven’t charged the whole night + test of a new extension cord.
10:00 – Leaving the MDRS by foot along Main Road
10:20 – Mick found a pillow and an UPS parcel (just a piece of cardboard)
10:30 – Martin positions his new samples along Main road
10:55 – Bastien sent his drone from the hab to record a video of us.
11:06 – On the way back to MDRS
11:21 – Arrival at the Hab
11:25 – Entering the airlock
11:28 – Mission finished.
Narrative:
Our EVA#10 took place on SOL#9 at 9:30. I am Sophie Wuyckens and I wanted to be part of this EVA in order to position my detector near a hill in our way. Unfortunately, we realized that the rovers didn’t charge the whole night. We understood that the fuses blew when we plug 2 sockets in the airlock. We have already discussed with Shannon to find a solution.
We decided together to follow our initial plan and follow the main road direction to the north. The weather was quite sunny. Our hiking was announced to be difficult. Fred, Mick and Martin climbed a hill quite high. Mario and I kept an eye on them and took pictures of them. Bastien from the Hab sent his drone to record a video of us. It was quite funny. On our way along the main road, we picked up some rubbish : a piece of cardboard, a pillow, a wooden post. We took the whole thing in our way back and put the rubbish in the burning bin outside (except the pillow). Given that we hadn’t got the rovers, I couldn’t position my detector (it is a quite heavy device). We didn’t make it to Tank Wash but it was still a good mission.We finished at 11:28.
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