EVA Report – February 26th

EVA # 06

Author: Isolde LOUZIER-RICALENS, Crew Journalist

Purpose of EVA : Atmospheric physics instrument battery change and data retrieval. Candor Chasma exploration.

Start time: 09:30 AM

End time: 01:30 PM

Narrative: EVA Crew entered the Airlock at 09:31 AM and left the station with rovers Curiosity and Perseverance at 09:36 AM. They drove to Marble Ritual and arrived at 9:41 AM. They walked in the west and arrived at the atmospheric instruments location at 9:45AM. They retrieved the data and changed the battery before going back to the rovers at 10:10 AM. They drove to Candor Chasma on Galileo road 1104 and arrived on site at 10:25 AM. They walked down to the canyon and started exploring. They came back to the rovers at 01:03 PM and drove back to the station. They arrived at 1:17 PM and entered the airlock at 1:26 PM.

Destination: Marble Rituals and Candor Chasma

Coordinates (use UTM WGS 84): 518250 E, 4250750 N then 520000E, 4251750N

Participants: Meddi Moumouni (greenHab officer) , Somaya Bennani (Scientist), Isolde Louzier-Ricalens (Journalist and EVA leader).

Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road 0110, Galileo road 1104

Mode of travel: Driving to Marble Rituals walking to the experiments site and coming back to the rovers then driving to compass rock and walking again to explore Candor Chasma.

Curiosity:

Start battery: 100%

End battery: 72%

Start hours: 297.1

End hours: 297.6

Perseverance:

Start battery: 100%

End battery: 72%

Start hours: 305.7

End hours: 306.4

Remark: EVA suit n°7 has a false contact on its on/off switch, so the ventilation was stopping several times during the EVA, even after switching "off" "on", or pushed higher the switch on "on".

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