SOL: 26
Name of person filing report: Leo Tokaryev
Non-nominal systems:
Notes on non-nominal systems:
ROVERS
Spirit rover used:no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Opportunity rover used:no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Curiosity rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Perseverance rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
General notes on rovers:
Summary of Hab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 10.94 gallons
Water (static tank): 125.1 gallons
Static tank pipe heater (on or off):On
Static tank heater (On or off)On
Toilet tank emptied: no
Summary of internet: none
Summary of suits and radios:
Summary of GreenHab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 8 gallons
Heater: On
Supplemental light: 22h-2h automatic
Harvest: 284g tomatoes, basil 4g, aneth 24g, cilantro 7g
Summary of ScienceDome operations: none
Dual split: Heat or AC, On
Summary of RAM operations:
1- The battery of suit 7 was changed, so, the next crew should do a 4h test on suits 7 and 9 before using them.
Summary of any observatory issues: none
Summary of health and safety issues: none
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: we left a lot of trash in the rear airlock, since we’re out of sim, we’d like to help you take it out!
GreenHab Report – March 15th
GreenHab Officer: Mathurin FRANCK
Environmental control: (heater, fan, door open?) Heater/fan turning on automatically
Average temperatures: between 70°F- 85°F
Hours of supplemental light: 10pm-2am
Daily water usage for crops: 8G
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: None
Water in Blue Tank (200 gallon capacity): 124 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 11:30 am 8:00pm
Changes to crops: /
Narrative: I finish cleaning the greenHab.
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams): 284g of tomatoes , 4g of basil, 24g of aneth, 7g of cilantro
Support/supplies needed:
Supplemental Operations Report – March 16th
Date: 3/16/2024
Name of person filing report: Sergii Iakymov
Reason for Report: Routine
Non-Nominal Systems: Hab wall heater, solar observatory, perseverance parking brake
Power system:
Solar: Nominal.
SOC Last 24 hours: Max 100%; Min 43%; Avg 63.1%.
VDC Last 24 hours: Max 59.46V; Min 45.90; Avg 49.55V.
Generator run time: 5422.9 hours.
Propane Readings:
Station Tank: 80%
Director Tank: 81%
Intern Tank: 81%
Generator Tank: 73%
Water:
Hab Static Tank – 530 gallons
GreenHab – 120 gallons
Outpost tank – 350 gallons
Science Dome – 0 gallons
Septic Tanks emptied: No
Rovers:
Sojourner rover used: No
Hours: 197.2
Beginning Charge: 100 %
Ending Charge: 100 %
Currently Charging: Yes
Notes on Rovers: Perseverance parking brake non-functional
ATV: ATV’s Used: None. Nothing to report.
Cars: Hab Car used and why, where: To Hanksville for supplies.
Crew Car used and why, where: Ho Hanksville and Grand Junction by crew
General notes and comments: N/A
Summary of Internet: All nominal.
EVA suits and radios:
Suits: All nominal
Comms: Headset #6 replaced.
Campus wide inspection, if action taken, what and why: All nominal.
Summary of Hab Operations: Wall heater is not functioning. Diagnostic is pending.
Summary of GreenHab Operations: All nominal
Summary of SciDome Operations: All nominal
Summary of Observatories Operations: Solar observatory telescope diagonal is awaiting new part for replacement
Summary of RAM Operations: All nominal
Summary of Outpost Operations: All nominal
Summary of Health and Safety Issues: All nominal
GreenHab Report – March 14th
Crew 293 GreenHab Report 14-03-2024
GreenHab Officer: Mathurin FRANCK
Environmental control: (heater, fan, door open?) Heater/fan turning on automatically
Average temperatures: between 70°F- 90°F
Hours of supplemental light: 10pm-2am
Daily water usage for crops: 8G
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: None
Water in Blue Tank (200 gallon capacity): 132 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 10:30 am 8:10pm
Changes to crops: /
Narrative: I cleaned the greenHab.
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams): 7 sunflowers for Crew Commander ‘s birthday
Support/supplies needed: /
Journalist Report – March 14th
SOL 25: Happy Birthday Commander!
“He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the Pure Life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words.” – The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
On this 25th Sol’s morning, our penultimate day of mission, we performed our penultimate EVA! Marie and Léa went to reach checkpoints placed at Kissing Camel Ridge, with Mathurin who counted their steps between each checkpoint. With the 2D map they had yesterday to prepare the EVA, they had more difficulties than Leo and I with the 3D map, because the topography of the area is complex. However, they managed to find 11 out of the 12 checkpoints, but they took almost one additional hour! During this EVA, the EVA Crew was helped by high schoolers from the CNES’s project PROXIMARS. They helped prepare protocols for both before and during the EVA. They even defined the roads to use with the rovers to reach Kissing Camel Ridge! They analyzed maps to report where the 12 checkpoints were and find the optimal path between them. This last photogrammetry’s EVA marks the end of the experiment inside the station. But Yves still has to handle data in order to analyze results.
During the EVA, there was a huge effervescence inside the Hab! Indeed, a surprise was set up: it was the birthday of Marie, our Commander! Leo, Yves, Lise and I stayed at the station, preparing everything for her return! We decorated the Upper Deck with balloons and confetti, and cooked a cake to surprise her. When the EVA Crew came back to the station, we blindfolded Marie to guide her to her surprise. We sang “Happy Birthday” and offered a bouquet of sunflowers from the GreenHab! Balloons and flowers stayed at the Upper Deck, for the great pleasure of the whole Crew! Marie was very moved and happy to celebrate her birthday with the Crew, in the station, in this unique context! For the rest of the Crew, we were delighted to surprise her and to please our Commander!
During the afternoon, we had to get back to work! We don’t have much time left in the station, we want to use it to contribute to science the best we can, by leading to the end of all our experiments. So we had cognitive tests for the Orbital Architecture experiment and session of the TILT experiment, given by the Neuroergonomic department of our school ISAE-SUPAERO. Marie and I performed a session of the EchoFinder experiment, it was the last one of the mission! Ending experiments one by one made us realize that we are leaving tomorrow … but we still have a lot of work to do!
EVA Report – March 14th
Crew 293 EVA Report 14-03-2024
EVA # 18
Author: Marie Delaroche (Leader)
Purpose of EVA: Photogrammetry exploration EVA with 2D map
Start time: 8:59
End time: 12:25
Suit 1: 13.43V, 2.5 LPM airflow
Suit 6: 13.30V, 2.3 LPM airflow
Suit 8: 13.68V
Narrative:
8:57 Depressurization started
9:02 Depressurization over, out on Mars
Opportunity 167.9H, 100%
Spirit 246.6 75% -> 72% -> change rover
Curiosity 271.8H, 100%
9:07 Leaving campus
9:14 Arrived at Kissing Camel Ridge
10:30 3 checkpoints left
11:04 2 checkpoints left, everything is fine
11:36 1 checkpoint left
12:05 Léa suit malfunctions, helmet off, heading back to the rovers
12:14 Back at the rovers
Curiosity 58%
Opportunity 59%
12:25 Re-pressurization
12:30 End of re-pressurization, EVA Crew back in the Hab
Suit 1: 10.61V, 0.4LPM airflow
Suit 6: 12.39V, insignificant airflow
Suit 8 12.5V
Destination: Kissing Camel Ridge
Coordinates (use UTM WGS 84): 518000,4249500
Participants: Marie Delaroche (EVA Leader), Léa Bourgély, Mathurin Franck
Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: rover on Cow Dung Road, South direction
Mode of travel: Walking and driving
Vehicles used: Opportunity and Curiosity (Spirit not used, charge level dropped from 75 to 72 % even before we started moving)
Additional notes : NA
Operations Report – March 14th
Crew 293 Operations Report 14-03-2024
SOL: 25
Name of person filing report: Leo Tokaryev
Non-nominal systems:
Notes on non-nominal systems:
ROVERS
Spirit rover used:no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Opportunity rover used:yes
Hours: 167.9
Beginning charge:100
Ending charge:59
Currently charging:yes
Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 271.8
Beginning charge:100
Ending charge:58
Currently charging:yes
Perseverance rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
General notes on rovers:
Summary of Hab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 12.51 gallons
Water (static tank): 125.1 gallons
Static tank pipe heater (on or off):On
Static tank heater (On or off)On
Toilet tank emptied: no
Summary of internet: none
Summary of suits and radios:
Summary of GreenHab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 8 gallons
Heater: On
Supplemental light: 22h-2h automatic
Harvest: 7 sunflowers
Summary of ScienceDome operations: none
Dual split: Heat or AC, On
Summary of RAM operations:
1- Every suit (from 1 to 9, I didn’t touch the two suits that are on the shelf under suits 7,8 and 9) was equipped with 3 replacement fuses, as discussed yesterday.
2- The battery of suit 9 was changed. We have lots of work to do before the end of the mission, so I won’t be able to test the battery for 4 hours, as with other suits, but the next crew could take care of it.
3- The zip-ties in the tunnel to the science dome were cut and lots of new ones were added on places where they were missing. There are only 2 large zip ties left. Also, there’s a lot of small zip ties in the RAM (the ones that belong to the Mars Society and the crew will also leave some to replace those we used), and some medium zip-ties(long but not large). I recommend buying some more medium size zip-ties, and large ones (those that are used for the tunnels)
Summary of any observatory issues: none
Summary of health and safety issues: none
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:
We have a lot of stuff that we could leave to the next crews, since we won’t be needing it anymore, please tell me if we can leave them in the RAM:
-lots of metal tent stakes
-different types of screws, in their original sorting box
-two chargers for batteries that are functioning well
-lots of AA and AAA batteries
-electric tape, normal tape, foil-covered tape( also, there’s not enough simple black tape for future crews).
Sol Summary – March 14th
Crew 293 Sol Summary Report 14-03-2024
Sol: 25
Summary Title: Cake and Confetti
Author’s name: Marie Delaroche, Crew Commander
Mission Status: Nominal
Sol Activity Summary:
Last Photogrammetry EVA this morning! I left the Hab with the Crew Astronomer and GreenHab Officer, equipped only with some notes taken from a 2D map of Kissing Camel Ridge. We managed to find 11 of the 12 checkpoints; the terrain was much harder to read than previous locations: we spent more than an hour looking for the last two. As we were going to head back to the rovers, the Crew Astronomer’s suit started malfunctioning, sending very little air. The helmet was taken off for safety, and we made our way back to the Hab.
What I did not know, was that while I was out on EVA, the rest of the crew was preparing a surprise birthday party for me! I came back to an Upper Deck decorated with balloons and filled with a scent of cake. I am lucky to be a part of this group of thoughtful and amazing people!
In the afternoon, we started to feel the end of our rotation creep nearer and nearer… some experiments have been officially wrapped up, such as EchoFinder and AI4U. We swap opinions and feelings about what we look forward to on Earth, but also about what we are going to miss about living at MDRS: contributing to science, the intensity of our life here, and most importantly, being with each other.
Look Ahead Plan:
We aim to dismantle and retrieve all atmospheric instruments on Sol 26 (morning), and to break sim at 6 PM.
Anomalies in work: EVA Suits 6, 7 and 9
Weather: Cloudy, Low 1°C, High 12°C
Crew Physical Status: Nominal
EVA: Photogrammetry exploration EVA, Kissing Camel Ridge
Reports to be filed: Sol Summary, Journalist’s Report, GreenHab Report, Operations Report, Photos (6-8 pics), EVA Reports, EVA Request
Support Requested: NA
Crew Photos – March 14th
Crew Photos – March 13th
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