Month: February 2020

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Operations Report – February 20th

Crew 222 Operations Report 20Feb2020

SOL: 4

Name of person filing report: Valentin PRUDHOMME

Non-nominal systems: N/A

Notes on non-nominal systems: N/A

Wednesday generator:

Off at 6:30am

On at 9:00pm SOC was 83%

Thursday generator:

Off at 5:30am

On at 9pm SOC was XX%

Diesel Reading – 75%

Station Propane Reading – 34% (refill asked)

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 0.5 gallons

Water (loft tank): 47 gallons

Water Meter: 149356.82 units

Water (static tank) – 387 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – yes

Water in GreenHab – 108.5 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Toilet tank emptied: no

Deimos rover used: yes

Hours: 144.3

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 94%

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 used: no

Hours: 132.0

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: 138.2

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 69%

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: used for the com. All ok.

Summary of suits and radios: Suits 7, 8, 9, 10 used and radio tested for the EVA. The spacesuit number 10 has stopped ventilating during the EVA this morning but the lights were still on. I tried to fix this during this afternoon and I’ll see if it works tomorrow.

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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GreenHab Report – February 20th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 20Feb2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 20,7°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 9 gallons

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

Water in blue Tank: 108,5 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, I started by watering plants and then I put seeds in the gelatin i prepared yesterday, but it was too hot in the greenhab so i had to put them in the science dome, thos plants will be compared to thoses that will

grow in the culture tower moss. Then I prepared gelatin for the experiment on plants, called music for plants that i’ll start tomorrow. Tonight i watered plants again and harvested some basil and chives to put on our tonight pizza.

Harvest: 6g basil, 5g chiver

Support/supplies needed:

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Journalist Report – February 20th

Crew 222 Journalist Report 20Feb2020

Author: Marie Bochard, Crew Journalist

Sol 4

Title: Precious water

The exploration continues! This morning, the EVA group headed down South to the Kissing Camels, a set of rocks between which the road passes through. Once there, we safely climbed over to the ridge, the hill that surpasses the road. The view up there was beautiful, on one side there was a vast plain with colored hilltops, on the other side there was a snowy mountain in the distance, between the high rock hills.

This afternoon, our crew Scientist, Nina, finished assembling her AeroSpring tower, the vertical culture tower. She also started to cultivate the plants that will grow in this tower, in a special moss that allows faster growth. We are hoping to see some sprouts before the end of our mission, and I will keep you posted!

Our Commander, Benjamin, also started putting together his experiment: the water-consumption control system. Using a camera linked to buttons, once someone wants to use water they just have to press a button before and the device will take a picture of the water-level before and after opening the tap. This monitoring is very important to our mission. Water is a rare resource here, and it has to be used with parsimony. Our biggest source of consumption is drinking: each crew member drinks up to 3L per day, since it is very dry here we are always thirsty. We also use water for cooking, as all our food comes dehydrated and has to be submerged in water before being cooked. The rest of the consumption comes from the dishes, hygiene and the toilet flush. We manage to use only 15 gallons of water per day in the Hab! Of course, in the GreenHab water is used to water the plants, and this system doesn’t take it into account since it is already monitored there.

Once again, Nicolas had prepared a relaxation session, which ended the afternoon well. Tonight is a special night: it’s pizza night! While writing our reports, we can all smell the oven heating up for our long-awaited dinner. Goodnight from every member of this amazing crew!

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EVA Report – February 20th

Crew 222 EVA Report 20Feb2020

EVA # 4

Author: Marie BOCHARD (Journalist)

Purpose of EVA: Change batteries of LOAC and MegaARES, and then second exploration for the crew 222

Start time: 9:10 AM

End time: 11:21 AM

Narrative: First, we checked all the rovers and the water level.

We then took the rovers to the experiments site and changed the batteries for the LOAC and the MegaARES in teams of two. Once that was all done, we went back to the rovers with the used batteries and headed out to the Kissing Camels at 9:45.

We arrived soon after, and left the rovers on the side of the road before the Kissing Camels to go exploring. We walked towards the Camels looking for an old road going west towards the ridge. We explored the Kissing Camels for 15 minutes, and then we went back to the road we had found. We followed the road as best as we could until we reached the bottom of the Ridge. One crew member’s helmet was a little foggy, so we took breaks every 5 minutes to let his helmet defog. The hills in front of us were beautiful, and we looked for a way to climb up safely to the Ridge. We followed a dry stream of water until it was too steep, and continued walking up wherever the path was walkable for everyone.

Once we were up the Ridge, we admired the different views that were offered to us: the view of the plain up the Ridge, the view of the snowy mountain in the distance, and the view of the plain we came from and where we could see the rovers. We stayed up the Ridge for about 30 minutes, I made sure to have enough time to walk back down safely because climbing down is always more difficult than climbing up.

We then walked back to the rovers and headed back to the Hab. We entered the station at 11:21 AM.

Destination: Kissing Camels and Ridge

Coordinates (use UTM NAD27 CONUS): 518500-4249500

Participants: Marie BOCHARD (Journalist, EVA leader), Benjamin AUZOU (Commander), Eishi KIM (AST), Valentin PRUDHOMME (Crew engineer)

Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road

Mode of travel: Rovers : Curiosity & Deimos

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Astronomy Report – February 19th

Astronomy Report

Name: Eishi Kim
Crew: 222
Date: 2/19/2020

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested: MDRS-WF (then MDRS-14 if approved)

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M101 and M42 will be imaged as part
of the astrophotography project. In this regard, I’ve requested more
time on my Skynet account. If reverting back to the MDRS-14 is approved,
I will keep on with the still active observations from the previous sols.

Images submitted with this report: None

Problems Encountered: Imaging of M31 is to be abandoned for tonight, as
it won’t be visible long enough.

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 19th

Crew 222 Operations Report 02/19/2020

SOL: 3

Name of person filing report: Valentin PRUDHOMME

Non-nominal systems: N/A

Notes on non-nominal systems: N/A

Tuesday generator:
Off at 6:00am
On at 9:30pm SOC was 82%

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

Diesel Reading – 75%

Station Propane Reading – 37% (refill asked)

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 0.5 gallons

Water (loft tank): 47 gallons

Water Meter: 149334.72 units

Water (static tank) – 410 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – yes

Water in GreenHab – 117.5 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Toilet tank emptied: no

Deimos rover used: yes
Hours: 144.1
Beginning charge: 100%
Ending charge: 88%
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 used: yes
Hours: 132.0
Beginning charge: 100%
Ending charge: 80%
Currently charging: yes

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

Curiosity rover used: no
Hours: 138.0
Beginning charge: N/A
Ending charge: N/A
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: used for the com. All ok.

Summary of suits and radios: Suits 7, 8, 9, 2 used and radio tested for
the EVA. The spacesuit number 10 was unplugged this morning so we didn’t
use it. All ok now.

Summary of Hab operations: N/A

Summary of GreenHab operations: N/A

Summary of ScienceDome operations: N/A

Summary of RAM operations: Operations on the spacesuit and LCVG experiment.

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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GreenHab Report – February 19th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 19/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 22,6°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 9,5 gallons

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

Water in blue Tank: 117,5 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, Since I was on EVA this morning, this is Marie, our
journalist that watered plants as I showed her yesterday and maked the
morning checks. After the lunch,
I started my experience of growing plants in gelatin to compare with
our culture tower. I went finally in the evening to watered a second
time the plants and took some
mint to prepare a tea to my crew this evening.

Harvest: 2g pineaple mint, 2g mint

Support/supplies needed: nothing to report

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Sol Summary – February 19th

Crew 222 Sol Summary Report 19-02-2020
Sol: 3
Summary Title: Crew Spirit
Author’s name: Benjamin Auzou
Mission Status: Crewmembers taking marks in the station and with each
other, science running well.
Sol Activity Summary: In the morning, the crew woke up with an other
matinal workout session. Then four crewmember went on the first
exploration EVA of the mission, the EVA went well and they discovered
some landscapes that were new for them.
The afternoon were dedicated to the evolution of scientific experiments
: the Spacesuit developped by crew 206 and now improved by our engineer
Valentin will be ready in a few days for an EVA, the vertical garden is
now ready to receive plants.
Before dinner, we shared a moment all together, discussing on forces
that , and tonight we’re planning to watch a movie together. The crew
dynamic has evolved today, thanks to discussions together and the
moments shared in the Hab.
Look Ahead Plan:
Tomorrow, the crewmembers that stayed in the Hab this morning will go on
EVA to explore the south of the Hab.
Thanks to the monitor, we will be able to launch the water monitoring
tomorrow.

Anomalies in work: none
Weather: blue sky in the morning, some clouds in the afternoon
Crew Physical Status: some weaknesses or physically tired
EVA: First exploration EVA
Reports to be filed: Journalist report, Operations Report, GreenHab
Report, Astronomy Report, EVA Report, EVA Request, Photo Report, HSO
Report, Photo of the Day
Support Requested: nothing to report

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Journalist Report – February 19th

Crew 222 Journalist Report 19Feb2020

Author: Marie Bochard, Crew Journalist

Sol 3

Title: Explorers

Mars is truly a beautiful planet. This morning was our first exploration-focused EVA. The group left for North Ridge, and came across stunning sights. The red sand meets yellow stones, dark hills are intercut by lighter sediments, it seems every step brings a new landscape to our eyes. It feels like we are so far from Earth, and we are! Even with spacesuits on, we all wished to have explored the surroundings of the Hab for hours on end.

Today we take a tour of the GreenHab with Bleuenn, our GreenHab officer. She is responsible for watering, planting and harvesting all the plants that we have. The GreenHab is our own little piece of Earth, a reminder of the green and blue planet that we left. Having this greenery is extremely important to us. Everything around us is hostile and infertile, whereas home grows in the soil of the GreenHab. It plays a big part in cheering us up: seeing plants grow and eating fresh food is very good for the morale. Back home, we are all used to eating fresh fruits and vegetables at every meal, especially since some of us are vegetarians, and the dehydrated food we have doesn’t have the same texture as food back on Earth. Flowers can also help with the isolation, as they can bring the smell of home to the Hab. All in all, the GreenHab is not just a habitat for vegetation, it also helps keep everyone in good mental shape!

We ended the day with a group cohesion activity. Nicolas spread cards on the table with qualities on them, and we each chose a couple that represented us. The goal was to explain how these qualities defined us, using examples from our experience. This was a very enriching experience as we got to know more of everyone, and being able to open up to the crew is important to be fully integrated. It was a great way to end the day, we are all feeling good and ready for tomorrow

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