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Day: June 13, 2018

Posted on June 13, 2018June 13, 2018

MDRS featured on Red Bull Blog

An article on the Red Bull Blog features both MDRS and MarsVR, the Mars Society’s new project to use Virtual Reality to support the exploration of Mars.

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Field Season #19

Crew 214 - Oct 26 -Nov 10 - MSA ExBoomerang
Crew 215 - Nov 9 - 24 - MSA ExBoomerang
Crew 216 - Nov 23 — Dec 8 - A.R.E.S. (Mars Society crew)
Crew 217 - Dec 7 - 14 - Spaceward Bound Utah (Utah NASA Space Consortium Grant)
Crew 218 - Dec 21 - Jan 5 - Purdue
Crew 219 - Jan 4 - 19 - ARES (Florida Inst. Tech)
Crew 220 - Jan 18 - Feb 2 - Mars Academy
Crew 221 - Feb 1 - 16 - Earth 2 Mars
Crew 222 - Feb 15 - Mar 1 - Supaero I
Crew 223 - Feb 29 - Mar 15 - Supaero II
Crew 224 - Mar 14 - 21 - Wilderness Medical Society class
Crew 225 - Mar 22 - 29 - University of Colorado 2 Mars class
Crew 226 - Mar 28 - Apr 12 - Colombia
Crew 227 - Apr 11 - 26 - UCL
Crew 228 - Apr 25 - May 10 - Mars Society II
Crew 229 - May 9 - 24 - Work Party
May 28-30 - University Rover Challenge
Crew 230 – June 1-8 - Medical Makers
Crew 231 - June 8-15 - Martian Biology II

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.

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Matterport Scans

Matterport Scan of Hab Upper Deck

We used a Matterport camera to take dozens of 360 panoramic scans of the inside of all of the MDRS facilities. View the Scans

MarsVR

The Mars Society ran a successful Kickstarter fundraising campaign to create MarsVR - a virtual reality technology platform that supports the MDRS and the human exploration of Mars.

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Crew Reports

  • Announcements (29)
  • Astronomy Report (118)
  • Commander Report (107)
  • Creative Report (4)
  • Crew Photos (327)
  • EVA Report (262)
  • Greenhab Report (360)
  • Journalist Report (320)
  • Mission Plan (17)
  • Mission Summary (34)
  • Operations Report (431)
  • research-report (5)
  • Science Report (125)
  • Sol Summary (413)
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MDRS Facts

Founded
2001

Field Seasons Completed
18

Number of Crews
218 (not including informal rotations)

Number of Participants
Over 1200

Nearest Town
Hanksville, Utah

 

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