Astronomy Report – April 8th – Mars Desert Research Station

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Name: Maxime Foucart
Crew: 296
Date: 08-04-2024
MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one) MDRS-WF
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: M100
Images submitted with this report: None
Problems Encountered: The website still shows Camera error
MUSK OBSERVATORY
Solar Features Observed: Eclipse, Prominences, Filament, Granules, Sunspots.
Images submitted with this report: Sun 240408 Eclipse and Sunspot,
Problems Encountered: A lot of clouds during the eclipse, so it was tricky to select the correct exposure as it was always changing. More pictures to come once I will have the time to process them all.

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 8th

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