Astronomy Report – April 7th – Mars Desert Research Station

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Name: Maxime Foucart
Crew: 296
Date: 07-04-2024
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M100
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: The skynet website is reporting a camera error for MDRS WF, and it seems I can’t access the telescope RCOS-16 from the Skynet website
MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: There were a lot of prominences and sunspots, I did multiple captures and created a composite image of mostly the entire Sun by using Photoshop.
Images submitted with this report: Sun 240207 Prominences and sunspots, composite.png
Problems Encountered: None

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

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Astronomy Report – April 7th

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