Greenhab Report – March 30th – Mars Desert Research Station

Crew 208 GreenHab Report – 30-March-2019

GreenHab Officer: Erika Rydberg

Environmental control:

Ambient with the door open

Shade cloth (80%) on

Average temperatures: 22 degrees Celsius

Low: 12
High: 29

Hours of supplemental light: 0

Daily water usage for crops: 6 gallons

Water in Blue Tank — 114 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops:10:45 and 16:55

Changes to crops: None

Narrative: First day for me in the Greenhab, I garden at home, so it was nice to see some good growth coming from vegetables in this environment. Herbs are abundant.

Harvest: 2 grams basil

Support/supplies needed: None

About The MDRS

The Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert was established by the Mars Society in 2001 to better educate researchers, students and the general public about how humans can survive on the Red Planet. It is the second Mars analogue habitat after the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station was established in 2000.

Over 200 crews of six-person teams have lived in 1-2 week field visits at MDRS to simulate life on the Martian surface. Researchers and students alike have explored the Mars-like terrain in the area surrounding the station in full “spacesuits”, maintained the station’s systems, grown plants in the GreenHab to support themselves and even recycled their waste water.

Our activities at MDRS are not only about informing the public, but also conducting real research to bring humanity that much closer to the reality of human exploration on the planet Mars.

Annual field seasons at MDRS run approx. October through May. Anybody can apply to be on a crew, and we also need volunteers to help with the project.

Management Team

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Greenhab Report – March 30th

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