EVA Report – January 29th – Mars Desert Research Station

Crew 220 (MAU) EVA Report 29JAN2020

EVA 10

Author: Johannes Svensoy, MD

Purpose of EVA: Exploratory and scouting EVA

Start time: 13:30

End time: 16:30

Narrative: The crew members going for the EVA started at MAU station and walked up Cow Dung Road over to MDRS Station. As previously arranged, the crew took the rovers Spirit and Curiosity for the exploratory EVA going North. The crew drove North on Cow Dung Road to Cowboy Corner. From there, the crew members walked East by foot and were able to ascend the hills to appreciate sprawling vistas. We were able to scout further North and take down coordinates important to help map the area. Everything went just as planned and the crew came back in good health.

Destination: Cowboy Corner.

Coordinates (use UTM NAD27 CONUS): 4252500, 518500

Participants: HabComm: Connie (MDRS). EVA Crew: Shawna, Morgan, Lee, and Johannes.

Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road 0110 North passing North Ridge to Cowboy Corner.

Mode of travel: Rovers Spirit and Curiosity and by foot.

Support Requested: No support requested during EVA.

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

EVA Report – January 29th

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