Category: EVA Report

EVA Report

EVA #11 – 3 Apr 2018 – Sol10
Crew members: Yusuke Murakami (EVA leader), Makoto Kawamura

Objectives:
– Operational check
– Cleaning the water tank

Operations:
10:26 – Entering the airlock
10:28 – EVA start, Operational check
10:49 – Depressurize start of RAM
10:52 – Depressurize finish of RAM
10:54 – Entering RAM
10:56 – Pressurize start of RAM
10:59 – Pressurize finish of RAM, Start Cleaning the white tank
12:29 – Depressurize start of RAM
12:32 – Depressurize finish of RAM
12:44 – Entering the airlock
12:47 – Enter HAB

Narrative:
After the EVA#9 team had leaved the HAB, Yusuke and Makoto started an operational EVA with a brush, towels, cleaner, and water for washing. We had already put the contaminated white tank inside the RAM on SOL9. As you know “RAM” is an abbreviation of the “Repair and Assembly Module”, but it never used as a purpose. So, today is the Memorial Day of RAM! Yusuke and Makoto got down into the tank only with underwear and cleaned it. Sometime they need to put their head out of a narrow mouth of the tank for breathing as a seal. We couldn’t complete cleaning the tank during this EVA, but almost done. The operation never realized without RAM. Thanks RAM!!!

Vehicles
– none

EVA #9 – 03 April 2018 – Sol10
Crew members: Venzha Christ (leader), Miho Tsukishiro, Kai Takeda

Objectives:
– Build another version of antenna for Analog Signal Receiver
– Recording Signal from Sun Radiation

Operations:
09:00 – Venzha Christ, Miho Tsukishiro,and Kai Takeda enter the airlock
09:03 – Exit the airlock and check for Deimos
09:08 – EVA start (All member)
09:25 – Arrived at site, as an alternative site for recording
09:28 – Explanation about how to put the antenna on site
09:31 – Start to build an antenna by Miho Tsukishiro and Kai Takeda
09:34 – Ready for antenna #01
09:39 – Ready for antenna #02
09:45 – Ready for antenna #03
09:50 – Ready for antenna #04
09:55 – Venzha Christ Start to Record
10:23 – Finish for recording process
10:27 – Leave the site
10:42 – Arrive
10:48 – Enter the airlock
10:51 – EVA end

Narrative:
EVA today was a Recording Signal from the DIY Analog Signal Receiver with another version of antenna
We explored to URC South Site area and found a good place for the project.
This project had a title : Space Weather Impacts On Climate,
: means that all weather on Earth, from the surface of the planet out into space, begins with the Sun. Space weather and terrestrial weather (the weather we feel at the surface) are influenced by the small changes the Sun undergoes during its solar cycle. Space Weather impacts numerous facets of everyday life, from where airplanes can safely fly, to how accurately a farmer plows his field. In addition, there are a large variety of phenomena that are driven by the variability of the sun over periods ranging from hours to years. The most important impact the Sun has on Earth is from the brightness or irradiance of the Sun itself. By build an antenna we can get specific signal that will received by this Analog Signal Receiver.
As a result, we will analyze all signal and frequencies we got from today and will have a visualization from those signal.

Vehicles

– 1 Rovers (Deimos: Miho Tsukishiro）

EVA Report

EVA #10 – 2 Apr 2018 – Sol9
Crew members: Yusuke Murakami (EVA leader), Fumiei Morisawa, Makoto Kawamura

Objectives:
– Operational check
– Sample the water of the white tank and the black tank
– Empty the water of the white tank and move to the RAM

Operations:
10:37 – Entering the airlock
10:40 – Operational EVA start
11:17 – Entering into RAM’s Airlock
11:20 – Entering RAM
11:21 – Open the shutter of RAM
11:29 – Put the white tank inside RAM
11:36 – Entering the airlock of the HAB
11:39 – Entering the HAB

Narrative:
This morning we decided to cancel EVA#9 (Venzha’s CEMs Project) because we had the water tank problems. After the daily operational check, we checked and sampled the water inside the white tank and the black tank. Shannon had already pumped out almost all of the water this morning, we fully emptied the water from the white tank. After that we measured the size of the tank and also the shutter of the RAM. It seemed that the tank could be pass into the RAM through the shutter. So we tried it, and did it. So now we got a choice to clean the tank without breaking the SIM later on.

Vehicles
– none

EVA Report
EVA #8 – 01 Apr 2018 – Sol8
Crew members: Miho Tsukishiro (EVA leader), Fumiei Morisawa, Makoto Kawamura, Wataru Okamoto

Objectives:
– Operational check
– Outreach EVA (Yusuke’s Project)

Operations:
13:30 – Entering the airlock
13:33 – EVA start
15:08 – BACK
16:03 – Entering the Airlock
16:06 – Enter HAB

Narrative:
Today is another day-off, but we do EVA for the outreach project of our commander Yusuke Murakami. For his commender report, we had photo-shooting on Mars: on the Hab Ridge and around the HAB. Because of good preparing before EVA, the shooting went very well and we got satisfactory results.

Vehicles
– 2 Rovers (Curiosity & Spirit)

EVA Report

EVA #7 – 31 Mar 2018 – Sol7
Crew members: Fumiei Morisawa (EVA leader), Kai Takeda

Objectives:
– Operational check
– Water moving from Sub tank to Main tank

Operations:
14:05 – Entering the airlock
14:08 – EVA start
14:53 – BACK
14:54 – Entering the Airlock
14:57 – Enter HAB

Narrative:
Today is day-off so today’s EVA was engineering check only. As CREW191 mission reached turnaround point, we moved water from sub-tank to main tank. In the operation we found something like glue on the surface of water in sub-tank. That looks like something chemical materials rather than biological pollution. Anyway, it may be just a little unpleasant for our health.

Vehicles
– none

Hi CapCom,

this is today’s EVA Report.

Best,

Miho XO crew191

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EVA #6 – 30 Mar 2018 – Sol6

Crew members: Venzha Christ (leader), Yusuke Murakami, Makoto Kawamura, Wataru Okamoto

Objectives:

– Build an antenna for Analog Signal Receiver, Recording Signal from Sun Radiation (CMEs: Venzha’s Project)

Operations:

13:35 – Venzha Christ, Yusuke Murakami, Makoto Kawamura, and Wataru Okamoto enter the airlock

13.38 – Exit the airlock and begin to engineering check

14:07 – EVA start (All member)

14.25 – Arrived at first site, as an alternative site for recording

14:32 – Arrived at second site, as an alternative site for recording

14:44 – Opportunity Rover suddenly overheat

14:50 – Solve the problem after wait for about 6 minute

14:58 – Back to the first place ; we switch rover

(Opportunity: Yusuke Murakami, Wataru Okamoto)

(Curiosity: Makoto Kawamura, Venzha Christ)

15:02 – EVA team stop for the moment to look at a sample of the soil

15:09 – Arrive at the first place

15:13 – Start to build an antenna by Yusuke Murakami, Makoto Kawamura, and Wataru Okamoto

15:26 – Ready for antenna #01

15:35 – Ready for antenna #02

15:49 – Ready for antenna #03

15:53 – Venzha Christ Start to Record

16:21 – Finish for recording process

16:31 – Leave the site

16:50 – Arrive

16:55 – Enter the airlock

16:58 – EVA end

Narrative:

EVA today was a Recording Signal from the DIY Analog Signal Receiver

We explored to White Moon area and found an amazing place for the project.

This project had a title : Space Weather Impacts On Climate,

: means that all weather on Earth, from the surface of the planet out into space, begins with the Sun. Space weather and terrestrial weather (the weather we feel at the surface) are influenced by the small changes the Sun undergoes during its solar cycle. Space Weather impacts numerous facets of everyday life, from where airplanes can safely fly, to how accurately a farmer plows his field. In addition, there are a large variety of phenomena that are driven by the variability of the sun over periods ranging from hours to years. The most important impact the Sun has on Earth is from the brightness or irradiance of the Sun itself. By build an antenna we can get specific signal that will received by this Analog Signal Receiver.

As a result, we will analyze all signal and frequencies we got from today and will have a visualization from those signal.

Vehicles

– 2 Rovers (Curiosity: Yusuke Murakami, Wataru Okamoto, Opportunity: Makoto Kawamura, Venzha Christ）

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EVA Report

EVA #5 – 29 Mar 2018 – Sol5

Crew members: Makoto Kawamura (leader), Miho Tsukishiro, Kai Takeda, Fumiei Morisawa (switched from Yusuke Murakami)

Objectives:

– Scouting

– Filming Mars landscape

Operations:

09:30 – Miho Tsukishiro and Kai Takeda enter the airlock

09:33 – Exit the airlock and begin to engineering check

09:54 – Makoto Kawamura and, Fumiei Morisawa enter the airlock

09:58 – EVA start (All member)

10:25 – Arrived at the Site

10:59 – Turn back to the HAB

11:25 – Enter the airlock

11:28 – EVA end

Narrative:

EVA today was a journalist EVA

We explored to describe MARS great scenery.

Using 360°camera and action cam, we challenged expressions that have never existed.

As a result, we think we are able to capture the dynamic figure of MARS.

Vehicles

– 2 Rovers (Curiosity: Makoto Kawamura, Miho Tsukishiro, Opportunity: Fumiei Morisawa, Kai Takeda）

EVA #4 – 28 Mar 2018 – Sol4

Crew members: Fumiei Morisawa (leader), Miho Tsukishiro, Kai Takeda

Objectives:

– Rubbish collections around MDRS

– Lecture about GPS device handling

Operations:

13:04 – Enter the airlock

13:07 – Exit the airlock and begin to engineering check

13:42 – EVA start

15:13 – Turn back to the HAB

15:26 – Enter the airlock

15:29 – EVA end

Narrative:

EVA today was like a real garbage collection on real MARS planet. I imagine that the real garbage on MARS could be like amazing gift for people on Earth. So means that we were collecting the luxury things from MARS.

Vehicles

– 2 Rovers (Curiosity: Fumiei Morisawa, Opportunity: Kai Takeda, Miho Tsukishiro）

EVA Report

EVA #3 – 27 Mar 2018 – Sol3
Crew members: Fumiei Morisawa (EVA leader), Venzha Christ, Makoto Kawamura

Objectives:
– Rubbish collections around MDRS
– Lecture about GPS device handling
– Scouting for Venzha’s CMEs project

Operations:
9:00 – Entering the airlock
9:03 – Collecting an engineering log in EVA
9:34 – Start to garbage collecting and scouting
10:50 – Turn back to the HAB
11:26 – Enter the airlock
11:29 – EVA end

Narrative:
It is sunny and wind is calm today, a condition is nice for collecting rubbish. We have patrolled the foot of North Ridge and collected various rubbish. A piece of cloth, plastic beverage bottle, old glove, and so on. Some of the large object that we couldn’t carry by hand are leaved there as it was. So we need to recollect them on another EVA with a vehicles later on. All the rubbish have recorded by GPS coordinates and photos data.

Vehicles
– none

EVA Report

EVA #12 – 22th March 2018 – Sol 11

Crew members: Bastien Baix (EVA leader), Michael Saint-Guillain, Mario Sundic, Sophie Wuyckens

Objectives:
– Drone mapping and drone filming by Bastien
– Photos by Mario
– Sophie will put her detector outside of the RAM

Operations:
9:43 – Entering the airlock
9:47 – Leaving the MDRS with 2 rovers
9:55 – Arriving at Zubrin’s Head
10:20 – We start climbing a high hill
10:42 – Top of the mountain
10:50 – Bastien map the mountain
11:05 – We go down of the mountain
11:40 – We leave Zubrin’s Head
11:50 – Arrival at the MDRS, Mario and Bastien go inside, Michael and Sophie install the muon detector 12:05 – Michael and Sophie enter the airlock

Narrative:
One of our last EVA took place on soil 12 at 9:40. I am Bastien Baix and I was EVA leader today. We decided to climb a high hill today. To do so, we went to Zubrin’s Head. Near this location, we located our objective and we start our climbing. It was particularly difficult as the slope was nearly vertical! As Sophie is relatively clumsy, we made her a safety line…

This climbing allowed us to take amazing pics and vids with the drone. Once we made it to the top, the view was amazing. We’ve seen miles around.

When we decided to go back and reach our rovers, we couldn’t find them anymore! We pass half an hour to finally find our way back to them and ride to the MDRS. It was an awesome but sweaty EVA!

Vehicles:
Curiosity and Opportunity rovers