Month: February 2020

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GreenHab Report – February 24th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 24/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Both heating and ambiant, door open in the
afternoon( window on the door because of the wind outside) to maintain
temperatures between 20 and 25 °C

Average temperatures: 23°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 8 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 72 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative:Today, I started as usual by exposing watercress to UV and
music, and then watered plants. This afternoon I went to harvest some
herbs for our pizzas and some carrots that were really good last time.
Our cucumber grow well and I hope we will eat it in a few days and
Spirulina looks really great in one of the aquarium. I went watering
plants again tonight.

Harvest:
Basil: 18g
Sun carrots: 100g(14 little carrots with leaves)
Chives: 7g
Sage: 1g
Lemon balm: 1g
Oregano: 3g

Support/supplies needed: NA

I am sorry for the mistake of yesterday, everything works very well
about environmental control.

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Journalist Report – February 24th

Crew 222 Journalist Report 24Feb2020
Author: Marie Bochard, Crew Journalist
Sol 8
Title: Cold wind blows

The wind today has been very loud. There is no visible movement outside
the windows, because there is no vegetation that bends and moves in the
wind. There is only sand and hills that stay still even when the wind
blows. We were impressed by the sheer speed of it: from our weather
station, we recorded a maximum speed of more than 15 m/s! This is rather
good news because wind dries out the mud that the snow created.
Hopefully, we will have dry ground soon, because going on EVA in mud is
very slippery and dangerous.

Today in the GreenHab, Bleuenn showed us a cucumber that’s almost ready
to be harvested. It’s going to be amazing to have a fresh, crunchy
vegetable! Her spirulina experiment is going well, the algae is growing
and will be harvestable in a few days hopefully. Nina’s aerospring moss
is also growing: out of the four plants she chose, three have grown
significantly and she will be able to transfer the moss into the
vertical garden in a few days. All this is very promising!

For a human factor experiment, we played a game called Keep Talking and
Nobody Explodes, about diffusing a bomb. One person has the bomb on
their computer, and they have to work in collaboration with an expert
who has the manual to diffuse the bomb. We are almost becoming competitive!

We ended the day with a delicious spinach pie staring a stunning “Crew
222” decoration by Nina, and watched Kaamelott all together to have a
good laugh before bed.

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Astronomy Report – February 24th

Astronomy Report

Name: Eishi Kim
Crew: 222
Date: 2/24/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: Keeping on with the research project,
the following targets are added to the queue for the second round, in
addition to the pending observations: NGC 2683, NGC 3031, NGC 2655, NGC
3344, NGC 4449, NGC 4254, NGC 3338, NGC 2775, M100. This will provide me
with standard images that can be compared to the existing reference
images, in order to try detecting a supernova.

Images submitted with this report: None, but the first standard images
are being analysed using the Photoshop overlay function. No promising
finding is to be reported so far.

Problems Encountered: Frames of NGC 4618, NGC 3521, NGC 4725 and NGC
3675 had WCS registration errors which make them unusable for analysis.
New observations are however planned in the coming days.

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

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EVA Report – February 23rd

Crew 222 EVA Report 23-02-2020
EVA # 7
Author: Nicolas Bourdeaud (HSO)
Purpose of EVA: Replacement of the battery of MegaAres.
Start time: 4:53pm
End time: 5:26pm

Narrative: Everything went just fine. We rapidly changed the battery and
assure the waterproofness of the experiment, despite the mud all around
the experiment.

Destination: Experiments Site.
Coordinates (use UTM NAD27 CONUS): 12S 0518494-4250679
Participants: Nicolas Bourdeaud (HSO, EVA Leader), Nina Sedbon (Scientist)
Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Entrance road – Cow Dung Road
Mode of travel: Rover – Curiosity

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Astronomy Report – February 23rd

Astronomy Report

Name: Eishi Kim
Crew: 222
Date: 2/23/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-14

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: As weather has improved, the active
observations should progress tonight.

Images submitted with this report: Taking advantage of bad weather, the
M101 was processed again, taking Peter’s tips into account. The bad
pixels are less visible now. Sorry I had only saved in PNG, not in JPEG!

Problems Encountered: None

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

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Operations Report – February 23rd

Crew 222 Operations Report 02/23/2020

SOL: 7

Name of person filing report: Valentin PRUDHOMME

Non-nominal systems: N/A

Notes on non-nominal systems: N/A

Friday generator:
Off at 5:30am
On at 5:00pm SOC was 80%

Saturday generator:
Off at 6:30am
On at 9:00pm SOC was XX%

Diesel Reading – 74%

Station Propane Reading – 30% (refill asked)

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 0.5 gallons

Water (loft tank): 47 gallons

Water Meter: 149426.79 units

Water (static tank) – 319 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – yes

Water in GreenHab – 80 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Toilet tank emptied: no

Deimos rover used: no
Hours: 146.2
Beginning charge: N/A
Ending charge: N/A
Currently charging: yes

Sojourner rover used: ASSIGNED TO DIRECTOR
Hours: N/A
Beginning charge: N/A
Ending charge: N/A
Currently charging: N/A

Spirit rover: no
Hours: 132.4
Beginning charge: N/A
Ending charge: N/A
Currently charging: yes

Opportunity rover used: no
Hours: 69.9
Beginning charge: N/A
Ending charge: N/A
Currently charging: yes

Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 138.4
Beginning charge: 100%
Ending charge: 90%
Currently charging: yes

Notes on rovers: N/A

ATV’s Used: yes
Reason for use: Run during the engineer EVA for the battery.
Oil Added? no
ATV Fuel Used: N/A
Hours the ATVs were Used today: 10 minutes
Notes on ATVs: The second one from the Hab doesn’t have anymore battery.

HabCar used and why, where? The habcar broke down on 02/18/2020. It’s
parked at Bull Mountain Market.

CrewCar used and why, where? N/A

General notes and comments: N/A

Summary of internet: All was fixed yesterday evening. All ok now.

Summary of suits and radios: Suits 8 and 9 used and radio tested for the
EVA. all ok.

Summary of Hab operations: N/A

Summary of GreenHab operations: N/A

Summary of ScienceDome operations: N/A

Summary of RAM operations: N/A

Summary of any observatory issues: N/A

Summary of health and safety issues: N/A

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: N/A

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Journalist Report – February 23rd

Crew 222 Journalist Report 23Feb2020

Author: Marie Bochard, Crew Journalist

Sol 7

Title: White land

It’s snowing outside! Here, the temperature easily drops below 0°C, staying at about -12°C for the majority of the night. The landscape feels changed, and it’s lucky that this change happened today since it is the middle of our mission. We started the simulation on Sunday, it’s been exactly one week since we started the mission, and there is one week left. We now have new sights to discover and new areas to explore in a different light!

Today is rest day. We’ve been working hard and going on EVA every day for a week, which has been tiring. We focused on ourselves today. We had new discussions, we read new books, we started putting together a summary video of our trip to get here… and of course caught up on sleep. Waking up at 6:45 to do sports every morning isn’t easy, even if it is worth it.

At the end of the mission, I can assure you that everyone will be able to solve a Rubik’s cube, thanks to Benjamin’s help! We also discovered space chess and battled hard.

We also took time to reflect on our mission so far. The beauty of the landscape is unanimously what we will remember most. Living with and only seeing six other people for a week has been a new experience for the majority of us, and so far, so good! We get along great.

Cooking has brought us closer: we bake bread daily, and sharing recipes between crew members makes us discover new tastes… and cooking abilities.

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