Name: Lieffrig Eléonore
Crew: 211
Date: 03rd May 2019
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M13
Images submitted with this report: 3C237 quasar
Problems Encountered: The telescope didn’t take the pictures of M13 last night.
MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: Granules, prominences at the surface of the sun.
The tracking issue is eventually solved.
Problems Encountered: None
Crew 211 Sol 12 Summary Report 3-May-2019
Sol: 12
Summary Title: Last day on Mars
Author’s name: Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist
Mission Status: Nominal
Sol Activity Summary: The commander and vice-commander left the Hab at 7:00 am for an engineering EVA to get back the cubelanders and the UWB antennas. We had then a nice breakfast altogether before the morning EVA to North Ridge. Part of the team started to pack their cases until noon. The GreenHab officer and the crew journalist finalized their experiment early in the afternoon while the rest of the team started to clean the different modules. Half of the crew left at 4:00 pm for the last EVA to North Ridge looking at a beautiful sunset over the MDRS campus.
Look Ahead Plan: We plan to leave at 7:00 am with the crew car to get part of the crew 212 at Grand Junction. We should get back to the MDRS around noon and have a lunch altogether. The afternoon will be devoted to the handover.
Anomalies in work: No issues.
Weather: Sunny, almost no wind
Crew Physical Status: Good
EVA: The two EVAs of today allowed us to further explore the area to look for potential places to set-up a temporary antennas system for geolocation and information transmission. Kissing Camel, North Ridge and the Hab Ridge are definitely interesting places for such a project.
Reports to be filed: Journalist Report, GreenHab Report, Operations Report, Science Report, EVA Report Summary report, Daily Photo Report
Support Requested: None
Crew 211 Sol 11 Summary Report 2-May-2019
Sol: 11
Summary Title: Sunset on Mars
Author’s name: Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist
Mission Status: Nominal
Sol Activity Summary: The commander and vice-commander began the day with a nice morning EVA along the Hab Ridge Road. After the breakfast, the commander and vice-commander deployed their respective experiment during an engineering EVA while the rest of the team finalized their own experiments. The deployment was postponed to this morning as different minor bugs prevented us to do it yesterday evening.The GreenHab officer harvested the Spirulina that was growing since more than a week and started to dry it. Part of the crew left at 5 pm for an EVA to Grey Moon. Tonight we will all observe the stars, enjoying the clear sky that the Utah offers.
Look Ahead Plan: We planned two EVAs for tomorrow as it is our last day on Mars.
Part of the crew will go to North Ridge in the morning. The rest of the team will end their experiment and start writing the summary report. We will get back the antennas and the cubelanders, in the morning during an engineering EVA. In the afternoon, we will do a second EVA, again to North Ridge. The rest of the afternoon will be devoted to packing our cases.
Anomalies in work: No issues.
Weather: Sunny, almost no wind
Crew Physical Status: Good
EVA: The morning EVA along Hab Ridge Road was shortened by the presence of steam in our helmets due to the low temperature at this time of the day. We didn’t manage to find the sinkhole but we had nevertheless the occasion to take nice pictures with the morning light. The second EVA to Grey moon started at 5 pm. The EVA team saw breathtaking panoramas.
Reports to be filed: Journalist Report, GreenHab Report, Operations Report, Science Report, EVA Request, EVA Report, Daily Photo Report
Support Requested: None
Crew 211 Operations Report 02-MAY-2019
SOL: 11
Name of person filing report: Julien Amalaberque
Non-nominal systems: The pump from the loft
Notes on non-nominal systems: * Loft pump: Still some weird noises but it holds. The leak is still present, nothing changed with that.
Generator (hours run last night): 11:00
On (last night): 8:00 pm
Off (this morning): 7:00 am
Solar— SOC 79 % at 19:30 pm
Diesel Reading – 100 %
Propane Reading – 49 %
Ethanol Free Gasoline – 4 gallons
Water (auxillary tank) – 0 gallons
Water (static tank) – ~190 gallons
Auxillary to Static tank transfer– no
Gallons transferred: No
Water in GreenHab – 65 gallons
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: 15 gallons
Toilet tank emptied: no
Deimos rover used: no (out of order)
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Sojourner rover used: ASSIGNED TO DIRECTOR, no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Spirit rover used: yes
Hours: 92.1h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 66
Currently charging: yes
Opportunity rover used: no
Hours: 58h
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging: no
Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 93.3h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 71
Currently charging: yes
Notes on rovers: Nothing to report
Reason for use:
ATV Fuel Used: 0 Gals
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0
Notes on ATVs: nothing to report
HabCar used and why, where? No
CrewCar used and why, where? No
General notes and comments: Nothing to report
Summary of internet: Nothing to report
Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report
Summary of Hab operations: Nothing to report
Summary of GreenHab operations: Some chards and carrots were harvested
Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report
Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report
Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report
Summary of health and safety issues: As we started the food inventory, we noted that a large majority of the food is expired.
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:
EVA report #11
Date: 01st May from 4:30 pm to 6:45.
The purpose of EVA was to explore Candor Chasma and gather soil samples.
Destination: Latitude: 4251000, longitude: 52000 (UTM NAD27 CONUS)
EVA Participants: Nathan Pechon (commander), Benjamin Flasse (Medic), Chloé Peduzzi, Eléonore Lieffrig
Roads and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road 0110 (one mile towards the North), then Galileo Road 1104 (0,8 mile towards East), then Cactus Road 1104 (1 mile towards the South). Eventually we walked towards to East to Candor Chasma.
Mode of travel: Driving and hiking with Curiosity and Spirit
Narrative : After about 10 minutes driving, we arrived at Candor Chasma. We walked in the canyon for about 25 minutes. It was really beautiful, but there were a lot of trees, which is not really martian.
We saw beautiful rocks of surprising colors, such as pink, deep red or even green. Then we went back to the rovers and drove home.
EVA report #10
Date: 30 April 2019 from 1pm to 3pm.
Purpose of EVA: We wanted to explore Kissing Camel since it offers an amazing point of view of all the surroundings of the station. We wanted to gather some soil samples regarding the great diversity of the local geology.
Destination: Latitude: 4249500, longitude: 518500 (UTM NAD27 CONUS)
EVA Participants: Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist(Commander), Simon Collignon(Medic), Maxime Bernard, Julien Amalaberque
Roads and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road 0110 (towards south) and we will stop between Kissing Camel Ridge West and Kissing Camel Ridge West.
Mode of travel: Driving and hiking with Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity.
Narrative : The first challenge of this EVA was to take the rover Opportunity to Kissing Camel. It went very well since Oppy didn’t show any sign of weakness in the whole round trip. However, it was only use in "Max Range" mode and was driven very gently. I would not recommend any kind of excess regarding this rover.
Once arrived on the site, we decided to climb carefully the Kissing Camel’s hills and reach the top of one of them. We’ve received an instant reward regarding our efforts with the lovely landscapes Kissing Camel had to offer.
This point of view could also have a scientific purpose. It could be a perfect place to set up an antenna and thus reach a very large area without interfering with mountainous terrains.
After a few drone footages and a deeper exploration of the place, we took the rovers and headed back to the Hab.
Science Report 01 May 2019
Crew 211 – UCL to Mars
Submitted by Science Officer Maxime Bernard
Commander Carl Dahlqvist
After long late hours yesterday, our commander finally managed to make his core system work and everything is now nominal.
At the moment, he is starting his test phase with the main module and two secondary modules.
XO Simon Collignon
The RTLS (real time location system) is now working fine and he will be testing it tomorrow during an EVA.
HSO Benjamin Flasse
This morning Benjamin gathered the data from the sleep monitoring he did on Julien.
Right after that, he measured everybody’s weight, tension and brain awakeness.
In addition to that, he took measures like fat density,bone quality and water repartition intra/extra cellular using Biody Xpert like every morning.
Crew Astronomer Eleonore Lieffrig
Our Astronomer just located the quasar 3C237 on the pictures she took with the remote telescope.
She also finished the theoretical part of her work and made headway in her colloidal tracking algorithm.
Crew Engineer Julien Amalaberque
Our Engineer integrated the accelerometer and the gyroscope in his location computation in order to make it more accurate.
Crew Biologist Chloé Peduzzi
She placed her Petri dishes in the incubator and is monitoring it constantly to make sure no contamination occurred.
So far, everything seems nominal.
In the meantime, she is measuring the pH level of her Spirulina cultures.
It is increasing which is what she was expecting.
Crew Journalist Nathan Pechon
We finished to talk about the fundamental rights, freedom of speech and anti-discrimination.
The debate are still very lively and the opinions are diversified.
Crew Scientist Maxime Bernard
Keeps taking data while changing experiment conditions to find where his problem could come from.
Crew 211 Operations Report 01-MAY-2019
SOL: 10
Name of person filing report: Julien Amalaberque
Non-nominal systems: The pump from the loft
Notes on non-nominal systems: The noise from the pump is beginning to slowly fade away instead of its original instant cutoff when we stop using water.
I am unsure whether it will hold for the rest of our mission or not. According to the Director a new one has been ordered.
Generator (hours run last night): 12:00
On (last night): 7:30 pm
Off (this morning): 7:30 am
Solar— SOC 72 % at 20:00 pm
Diesel Reading – 24 %
Propane Reading – 49 %
Ethanol Free Gasoline – 4 gallons
Water (auxillary tank) – 0 gallons
Water (static tank) – ~220 gallons
Auxillary to Static tank transfer– no
Gallons transferred: No
Water in GreenHab – 70 gallons
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: 15 gallons
Toilet tank emptied: yes
Deimos rover used: no (out of order)
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Sojourner rover used: ASSIGNED TO DIRECTOR, no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Spirit rover used: yes
Hours: 91.6h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 60
Currently charging: yes
Opportunity rover used: yes
Hours: 58h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 97
Currently charging: no
Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 93h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 70
Currently charging: yes
Notes on rovers: Nothing to report
Reason for use:
ATV Fuel Used: 0 Gals
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0
Notes on ATVs: nothing to report
HabCar used and why, where? No
CrewCar used and why, where? No
General notes and comments: Nothing to report
Summary of internet: Nothing to report
Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report
Summary of Hab operations: Nothing to report
Summary of GreenHab operations: Nothing to report
Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report
Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report
Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report
Summary of health and safety issues: Nothing to report
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:
Crew 211 GreenHab Report – 1-MAY-2019
GreenHab Officer: Chloé Peduzzi
Environmental control: Ambient with door open + fan turned up to 3
Shade cloth: 80%
Average temperatures:
Low: 15°C
High: 35°C
Hours of supplemental light: 0
Daily water usage for crops: 4 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: 70 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 10:30
Changes to crops: All plants look healthy. The tomato plant of the GreenHab and some basils seem a little stressed. The are more flowers on the tomato plant.
Narrative: It was also cooler today. We have harvested Basil and Radish.
Harvest: 13.9g Radish + 1.7g Basil
Support/supplies needed: I won’t have enough water for 1 week long, as it was really hot this past week, and I had to water plants accordingly.
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