December 18, 2017 – Mars Desert Research Station

Crew 185

Operations Report Monday 12/18/2017

SOL: -1

Name of person filing report: A.Passeron

Non-nominal systems:

– Heater :

On Monday morning, Thibault and I removed the air filter. It had not been changed since April 2016. At 10:00am, Ilaria and David went to city to buy a battery for the generator and a pack of air filters. We replaced the filter at 3:00pm. The heater is now working well.

-Generator :

Shannon helped us to change the battery at 3:00pm. We then drained oil from the radiator by pouring clean cooling liquid. The oil of the generator was also very dirty. It was so sticky that we had to start the generator for a few minutes to heat the oil and thin it. We thus were able to remove the oil filter, but only a fraction of dirty oil came out of the generator. We tried to remove as much dirty oil as possible by filling the motor with clean oil, but a valve seemed to block the oil circulation. After pouring as much clean oil as we could, we replaced the oil filter. The generator was finally turned on at 5:00pm.

Generator (hours run):

Generator turned on at 5:00pm.

Solar— SOC @ 6:00pm : 98%

Diesel – 80%

Propane – 60 percent volume

Ethanol Free Gasoline (5 Gallon containers for ATV) – 5 Gallons (Full)

Water (trailer) – 150 gallons

Water (static) – 300 gallons

Trailer to Static Pump used – Yes

Static to Loft Pump used – Yes

Water Meter: 45 gallons

Toilet tank emptied: No

ATV’s Used: No

Oil Added? No

ATV Fuel Used:

# Hours the ATVs were used today: 00:00 hours

Notes on ATVs: ATVs were nominal.

Deimos rover used: No

Hours: 00:00 hours

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging:

Sojourner rover used: Assigned to director only.

Hours: 00:00 Hours

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging:

Spirit rover used: No

Hours: 00:00 Hours

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging: Yes

Opportunity rover used: No

Hours: 00:00 Hours

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging: Yes

Curiosity rover used: No

Hours:

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging:

HabCar used and why, where? No

Summary of internet: All Nominal

Summary of suits and radios: All Nominal

Summary of Hab operations: All nominal

Summary of GreenHab operations: All nominal

Summary of ScienceDome operations: All nominal

Summary of RAMM operations: Not Operational

Summary of health and safety issues: Crew is Healthy

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:

Today has been a busy day for the Crew 185. As it was our last day before entering simulation, we needed to prepare the hab in the best possible way and to fix as many things as possible before closing our doors.

We decided to work in two groups. Ilaria and David took the car to buy a new battery for the generator, soil for the greenhab and food. Arno, Thibault and John set the laboratory with the 3D printer, the medical supplies, the X-1 spacesuit prototype, etc…

This afternoon, we repaired the generator by replacing the battery and changing a part of the cooling liquid and the oil. It is working better at the moment when I write these lines! Hopefully, it will keep being in a good shape.

We decided that we would begin the simulation tomorrow morning when waking up. Mars, here we come!

The Crew 185

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

Mission Support

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Day: December 18, 2017

Operations Report – December 18th

Sol Summary – December 18th