GreenHab Report – November 16th
Sol 13 – 16/11/201
Green Hab Officer Atila Meszaros
Ambient: heating 10°C
Ambient with window/door open: door opened at 10:20; closed at 17:34
Shade cloth on/off: on
Average temperature:
Time | 10:36 | 17:06 |
Temperature inside (°C) | 27 | 15 |
Temperature outside (°C) | 10 | 8 |
% Humidity | 16 | 16 |
Changes to crops: Crops keep growing!
Daily water usage for crops: 2 galons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 10:36 and 17:06
Changes to research plants: controls keep growing! No signs of germination on the analog soil. The emergency day turned the analog soil like clay, again.
Daily watering and amount of water used: 1 ½ L approximately
Narrative:
Hi, Sylvain! Atila, here. I hope you are having an amazing night.
Kevin’s crops are growing pretty solid, Julio already sent a picture. It’s crazy! I wanted to ask what’s the plan for them.
I thought that the seeds on the Petri dishes were ready to be planted on the analog soil, again. They just needed another one more day. The quinoa seeds are not germinating on the control, either. I’m guessing that the day I didn’t water them was enough for them from drying. That almost killed all the project! I will need to continue with my experiment on my university with the analog soil to get solid results.
I think that’s pretty much all, if you need more information about the GH I will be glad to send it to you.
Thank you for being there, Sylvain!
Have a beautiful night on Earth.
Support/supplies needed: none
Operations Report – November 16th
Crew 182 Operations Report 16Nov2017
SOL: 13
Name of person filing report: Carmen Atauconcha
Non-nominal systems:
WATER HEATER: Finally, we found the problem. The new water heater is not installed, yet.
CHARGERS OF THE SUITS: Two of the chargers are working, but we moved them and now it is hard for us to connect them, again.
Generator— It worked the whole night since 16:30pm of 15Nov2017 until 12:00 pm of 16Nov2017. Turn on at 16:50 pm 16Nov2017. Operand.
Solar—
READING FROM 16 NOV 2017
TIME | SOC READINGS |
12:00 pm | 100% |
13:00 pm | 98% |
14:00 pm | 91% |
15:00 pm | 84% |
16:20 pm | 80% |
16:50 pm | 75% |
Diesel – 50 %
Propane – 49 psi
Gasoline (5 Gallon containers for ATV) – 2 ½ gallons.
Water (trailer) – 0 gallons
Water (static) – 300 gallons
Trailer to Static Pump used – No
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: 60 gallons
Toilet tank emptied: yes
ATV’s Used: No
Oil Checked: No
Atv # Fuel Used Gals: 0 gallons
Tires Status: Perfect
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0 hours
Deimos used: No
Hours: 0
Beginning charge: –
Ending charge: –
Currently charging: Yes
HabCar used? No
Notes and Comments:
I would call today, the day of cleaning. Everyone here is tired. Literally, we cleaned every hole here. There was too much dust. Today in the morning, the commander went to search transportation to return to the Earth. We are sad to leave Mars, and at the same time, happy for returning at home.
From another hand, survivor man is coming. We are so excited¡
Summary of Hab Operations:
We cleaned the whole hab. We found, a couple of glasses and gloves, behind the area of the tools.
Summary of GreenHab operations:
We cleaned the greenhouse. We found too much dust. The two wheelbarrows are in the greenhouse, now.
Summary of ScienceDome operations:
The science dome is finally cleaned. In fact, we found tons of dust under the carpet.
We are using the lamps of the Hab, for the laboratory.
Summary of health and safety issues:
Now, we can say the station is in equilibrium with our health and safety.
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:
We need gasoline for the ATV’S, please. URGENT
Sol Summary – November 16th
MDRS Daily Summary Report for Sol 13.
Summary Title: Organizing MDRS.
Mission Status: Preparing to leave MDRS. We did some improvements in MDRS fixing some issues in the physical facilities.
Sol Activity Summary: We just concluded the cleaning procedures of the entire installation, also cleaning the GreenHab and the laboratory. We developed many different activities organizing and fixing the facilities of MDRS.
Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow, probably will happen an EVA, but We are just waiting the SurvivorMan to decide about would be interesting to him.
Anomalies in work: Nope.
Weather: 17o C, 62o F.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: We planed an EVA today, but not was possible. We planed to go to Lith Canyon, collect samples from the Salt Wash Member, and return to the Hab. Our EVA for today did not take place, since we needed additional time to clean up the Hab before Survivorman arrives.
Reports to be file:
Commanders Report
Daily Summary Report
Operation Report
GreenHab Report
HSO Report
XO Report
Crew-photos Crew 182 16Nov2017.
Support Requested: Nope.
Crew Photos – November 16th
Sol Summary – November 15th
MDRS Daily Summary Report for Sol 12.
Summary Title: Rescuing the ATV.
Mission Status: We developed many kinds of activities today: preparing meals, doing research, practicing exercises and rescuing the ATV.
Sol Activity Summary: Great part of our day was consumed with the rescue of the ATV in the in southeast of Skyline Ridge area. They depart at 12h20m and arrived at 15h30m. Julio and Camila worked in a proposal of guidelines to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) during their times aboard of the MDRS. All the crew members developed their specific research.
Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow, will happen the EVA #9. Starting 11h and finishing 14h. Will participate in the EVA: Brandon (EVA planning, Navigation, Sample Collection), Julio (rock collection and photography) and Carmen (Sample Collection).
Anomalies in work: During the morning part of the crew moves to Skyline Ridge area to rescue the red ATV. Julio broke the simulation between 16h30m-17h30m (1 hour) for 1) to do photos of the full MDRS station from a little distance showing all of the buildings and 2) walking exercise as part of his research related with health and personal sustainability. Julio communicated the external activity to Brandon (EVA Lead).
Weather: 8o C, 46o F.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: No EVA today.
Reports to be file:
Commanders Report
Daily Summary Report
Scientific Report
Operation Report
GreenHab Report
HSO Report
XSO Report
Crew-photos Crew 182 15Nov2017.
Support Requested: Nope.
Operations Report – November 15th
Crew 182 Operations Report 15Nov2017
SOL: 12
Name of person filing report: Carmen Atauconcha
Non-nominal systems:
WATER HEATER: Finally, we found the problem. The new water heater is not installed yet.
CHARGERS OF THE SUITS: Two of the chargers are working, but we moved them and now it is hard for us to connect them, again.
Generator— It worked the whole night since 17:05pm of 14Nov2017 until 8:00 am of 15Nov2017. Turn on at 16:30 pm 15Nov2017. Operand.
Solar—
READING FROM 15 NOV 2017
TIME | SOC READINGS |
9:30 am | 100% |
10:30 am | 100% |
11:30 am | 100% |
12:30 pm | 100% |
13:30 pm | 100% |
14:35 pm | 98% |
15:30 pm | 90/% |
16:00 pm | 85% |
16:30 pm | 80% |
17:30 pm | 100% |
Diesel – 50 %
Propane – 49 psi
Gasoline (5 Gallon containers for ATV) – 2 ½ gallons.
Water (trailer) – 0 gallons
Water (static) – 350 gallons
Trailer to Static Pump used – No
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: 62 gallons
Toilet tank emptied: yes
ATV’s Used: Yes
Oil Checked: No
Atv # Fuel Used Gals: 1 gallons
Tires Status: Perfect
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 2 ½ hours
Deimos used: Si
Hours: 2 ½
Beginning charge: – 14:20
Ending charge: –
Currently charging: Yes
HabCar used? No
Notes and Comments:
We love the new ATV’s and Rovers. Thanks¡
Summary of Hab Operations:
In the morning, when we waked up, we received four more ATV’s. It is nice, of all them work. Also today, we went to recover the ATV left yesterday in the desert. Also, we needed to charge it, because it does not have battery. We connected it with another ATV, and it works.
Summary of GreenHab operations:
We are cleaning and organizing this area. It is a disaster, but we are working on it.
Summary of ScienceDome operations:
We are using the lamps of the Hab, for the laboratory.
Summary of health and safety issues:
Atila is better now. All of us are better that yesterday.
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:
We need gasoline for the ATV’S, please. URGENT
Science Report – November 15th
Science Report
Camila Castillo
15 Novermber 2017
Executive Officer Report – November 15th
Sol 12- 15/11/2017
Executive Officer Atila Meszaros
Hi, Kay! Atila in here again, reporting the events of Sol 12.
Today we were EVA-free, however as you should know by now, we had to rescue the poor and lonely red ATV from the darkness of Mars. The rescue party was Brandon, Carmen, Shannon and I. We succeed in our mission without any causalities and we got back home absolutely safe.
I’m working on a map of the Hab that points the fire alarms, CO monitors and fire extinguisher. I’ll let you know how that worked.
I think that’s pretty much all. If you need anything else just let us know.
EVA Report – November 15th
Note before reading that nobody was hurt, and no property was damaged. The red ATV was successfully recovered and returned to the Hab. We had to go out of Sim since Shannon needed to come to help rescue the red ATV. Now on with the report…
EVA #8 Report (Operation Rescue Rover)
The sole purpose of our EVA today was to bring back the red ATV to the hab, whether that meant driving it back under its own power, or towing it back. We equipped ourselves with jumper cables, wrenches, pliers, and any other tools we needed for repairs.
We left the Hab at approximately 12:15 PM. In our party was Shannon, Carmen, Atila, and I. Shannon and Carmen manned Deimos. Atila and I piloted two of the blue ATVs. We kept within following distance of each other, passing Tank Wash, White, Yellow, & Green Moon without incident. Passing Sagan St, we arrived at the red ATV at approximately 12:50 PM.
Once we arrived, Shannon attempted to start for good measure. As expected, it wouldn’t go. So, as we concluded yesterday, the battery was most likely drained due to attempting to start it multiple times. So we decided that we’d need to jumpstart the red ATV. We got it running at about 1:05 PM.
We connected the jumper cables without incident, attempted to start the red ATV, and success! It worked like a charm and started right up. We had Carmen ride the red ATV with everyone else in their same vehicles.
Our return trip proceeded without incident. We returned to the Hab at 2:20 PM, refilled the gasoline on the ATVs, and plugged in Deimos.
Surprisingly, after going all that way, Deimos lost only 6% charge, according to Shannon. I did observe yesterday that Deimos was set to High instead of Medium, when I took control of it. I was leading in the red ATV that day, and at times, would go a little bit ahead and wait for Deimos. This may have compelled him to use the High setting to keep up with my ATV. In future EVAs involving an ATV and Rover, I’ll make sure that we caravan together, so as not to put pressure on the Rover driver to keep up. My observations yesterday about Deimos still gives us an upper limit for its High setting. I’d estimate that the High setting drains the battery about 15 times more quickly. This is a good reason why crew members using the ATVs should match the speed of the rovers, and stay within visual contact. Preferably, the slowest vehicle should lead; in order prevent the above from happening, along with other potential safety issues that can occur when crews become separated.
There was no additional EVA today, since the rescue operation took up much of our time for the day. This is all I have to report. Have a nice night mission support!
Brandon Ferguson
EVA Officer
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