Category: Science Report

Crew 212 – LATAM III

Submitted by GreenHab Officer Hector Palomeque

1. Solar Observation/Astrophotography/Stellar Clusters:

• The eyepiece of MUSK Telescope was successfully assembled.

• First picture of the sun with MUSK Solar Telescope (a bit cloudy).

• Deep Sky Robotic Telescope still observing a star cluster (interrupted due to the bad weather).

2. X-5:

• The first flight of 2 on 3 drones in a Martian environment was performed during today’s EVA (SOL 4).

• Manual light off and landing did for checking that Drones are working correctly.

• Drones operation with space suit was tested.

• Waiting for the weather forecast to schedule and perform the next experiment (photos of the MDRS Hab and other areas).

3. VESTA:

• One flight of the Drone-Multicopter were performed around MDRS Hab during today’s EVA (SOL 4)

• Interesting points around MDRS Hab selected.

• Drone successfully connected to the computer for planning an automatic mission.

4. Observation Rover:

• Linux system correctly launched and running in a crew’s Laptop.

• Still needing to download the script from UK for uploading it into the Raspberry Pi Rover board.

5. Space Farming:

• Red-Clay collected for preparing a mix for Martian-like regolith.

• Broken-Autoclave used for boiling in order to disinfect/sterilize the material as much as possible (without problem nor danger).

• Broth culture media for selected Chernobyl and Fukushima bacteria successfully prepared and sterilized (no contamination detected in negative control after 24 hours).

• Chernobyl and Fukushima bacteria correctly inoculated in Nutrient Broth.

• Chernobyl and Fukushima bacteria already showing sights of growth.

6. Keep Talking:

• Crewmembers getting a better performance during the game. Some teams already have reached the Difficult Level.

• The fourth day of playing (corresponding for each SOL).

7. Ethnography study:

• Audio-recordings with the information collected during the observations of the Crew 212 behave already sent to the Colombian Aerospace Research and Develop Group (Colombia).

8. Pulse Oximeter Measurement:

• No update to report.

9. Software for macroscopic characterization:

• Nutrient Agar in Petri dishes prepared using the Broken-Autoclave (all correct).

• MDRS soil bacteria cultivated in Nutrient Agar.

• Waiting for bacterial growth (24 hours).

• EVA scheduled for collecting rhizospheric soil of MDRS plants.

Spacesuit Engineer: Camilo Andrés Zorro Mendoza

Spacesuit report

Sol: 4

Sim suit used: 3, 4, 8 and 9.
used for 2 hours

Sim suit: 3
Voltage level before EVA: 13.4 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.8 V

Sim suit: 5
Voltage level before EVA: 13 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.7 V

Sim suit: 8
Voltage level before EVA: 13.2 V
Voltage level after EVA: 10.5 V

Sim suit: 4
Voltage level before EVA: 12.9 V
Voltage level after EVA: 10.6 V

Crew 212-LATAM-III

Submitted by Spacesuit Engineer: Camilo Andrés Zorro Mendoza

Spacesuit report

Sol: 3

Sim suit used: 8, 3, 9 and 5

Sim suit: 3
Voltage level before EVA: 12.9 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.6 V

Sim suit: 5
Voltage level before EVA: 13.7 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.9 V

Sim suit: 8
Voltage level before EVA: 12.8 V
Voltage level after EVA: 10.5 V

Sim suit: 9
Voltage level before EVA: 13.1 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.7 V

General comments:

It was founded that four batteries of radios does not get charge. Also one sim suit recharger does not work. The radios was numbered.

Science Report 7 May 2018

Crew 212 – LATAM III

Submitted by GreenHab Officer Hector Palomeque

1. Solar Observation/Astrophotography/Stellar Clusters: The procedure of turning on the MUSK telescope and the dome has been successfully tested. Observations of a galaxy were made with the deep sky objects robotic telescope.

2. X-5: Drones were disassembling for transportation to MDRS: 2 on 3 drones already assembled. Calibration performed. Manual test of 2 on 3 drones scheduled for SOL-3.

3. VESTA: Performing a repair in the landing gear of the drone. First flight test scheduled for May, 09 (SOL 4).

4. Observation Rover: The EVA for today May, 7 (SOL 2) was canceled due to the weather.. A part of the Rover got missing in transit from Grand Junction to MDRS. Critical Component. Solution needed ASAP: Stablish contact with UK.

5. Space Farming: Experiment in standby due to the lack of an operational autoclave. Solution: Dr. Shannon Rupert has explained how to sterilize using a hotplate, alcohol, and bleach.

6. Keep Talking: First round already performed. Subsequent rounds already scheduled.

7. Ethnography study: First observation started yesterday (SOL-1). Waiting for sending audio-information to receive the feedback from the Colombian team project.

8. Pulse Oximeter Measurement: First measurement made yesterday. Data recorded.

9. Software for macroscopic characterization: Code for detecting counts in progress. There is an issue with detecting the petri dish. Solution: process more photographs needed (soil bacteria growing in plates).

Science Report 7 May 2018

Crew 212 – LATAM III

Submitted by GreenHab Officer Hector Palomeque

1. Solar Observation/Astrophotography/Stellar Clusters: The procedure of turning on the MUSK telescope and the dome has been successfully tested. Observations of a galaxy were made with the deep sky objects robotic telescope.

2. X-5: Drones were disassembling for transportation to MDRS: 2 on 3 drones already assembled. Calibration performed. Manual test of 2 on 3 drones scheduled for SOL-3.

3. VESTA: Performing a repair in the landing gear of the drone. First flight test scheduled for May, 09 (SOL 4).

4. Observation Rover: Termo-shielding in Mars terrain tested today during EVA. A part of the Rover got missing in transit from Grand Junction to MDRS. Critical Component. Solution needed ASAP: Stablish contact with UK.

5. Space Farming: Experiment in standby due to the lack of an operational autoclave. Solution: Dr. Shannon Rupert has explained how to sterilize using a hotplate, alcohol, and bleach.

6. Keep Talking: First round already performed. Subsequent rounds already scheduled.

7. Ethnography study: First observation started yesterday (SOL-1). Waiting for sending audio-information to receive the feedback from the Colombian team project.

8. Pulse Oximeter Measurement: First measurement made yesterday. Data recorded.

9. Software for macroscopic characterization: Code for detecting counts in progress. There is an issue with detecting the petri dish. Solution: process more photographs needed (soil bacteria growing in plates).

Science Report 01 May 2019
Crew 211 – UCL to Mars
Submitted by Science Officer Maxime Bernard

Commander Carl Dahlqvist

After long late hours yesterday, our commander finally managed to make his core system work and everything is now nominal.
At the moment, he is starting his test phase with the main module and two secondary modules.

XO Simon Collignon

The RTLS (real time location system) is now working fine and he will be testing it tomorrow during an EVA.

HSO Benjamin Flasse

This morning Benjamin gathered the data from the sleep monitoring he did on Julien.
Right after that, he measured everybody’s weight, tension and brain awakeness.
In addition to that, he took measures like fat density,bone quality and water repartition intra/extra cellular using Biody Xpert like every morning.

Crew Astronomer Eleonore Lieffrig

Our Astronomer just located the quasar 3C237 on the pictures she took with the remote telescope.
She also finished the theoretical part of her work and made headway in her colloidal tracking algorithm.

Crew Engineer Julien Amalaberque

Our Engineer integrated the accelerometer and the gyroscope in his location computation in order to make it more accurate.

Crew Biologist Chloé Peduzzi

She placed her Petri dishes in the incubator and is monitoring it constantly to make sure no contamination occurred.
So far, everything seems nominal.
In the meantime, she is measuring the pH level of her Spirulina cultures.
It is increasing which is what she was expecting.

Crew Journalist Nathan Pechon

We finished to talk about the fundamental rights, freedom of speech and anti-discrimination.
The debate are still very lively and the opinions are diversified.

Crew Scientist Maxime Bernard

Keeps taking data while changing experiment conditions to find where his problem could come from.

Science Report 29 April 2019
Crew 211 – UCL to Mars
Submitted by Science Officer Maxime Bernard

Commander Carl Dahlqvist

All the Hardware is done and tested and all the CubeSat are all mounted.
Only the software still need to be tested.

XO Simon Collignon

Arrive à dessiner en temps réel le tracé d’objets (RTLS: Real Time Location System)

HSO Benjamin Flasse

This morning Benjamin gathered the data from the sleep monitoring he did on one of the crew member.

Right after that, as every morning, he measured everybody’s weight, tension and brain awakeness and all the usual mensurations.
All CFFF, blood pressure and heart rate graph are done.

Crew Astronomer Eleonore Lieffrig

Tried to deal with the Musk observatory and the tracking system
Finished to compute the Brownian motion generator and the Peclet Number.

Crew Engineer Julien Amalaberque

Managed to align two video flux (color and depth) to successfully compute the real time camera position.
Next step will be to find a way to fix it to the drone.

Crew Biologist Chloé Peduzzi

Every spirulina cultures are going to be checked using an axenicity test which will last 3 days and will allow her to know if any contamination happened.

Crew Journalist Nathan Pechon

We had a meeting during which we discussed about the symbol on Mars(flag,..), the religion and thought freedom and finally about the right for informations.

Crew Scientist Maxime Bernard

Still trying to figure out where the statistic counting problem could come from.
Only few muons can be seen.

Science Report 27 April 2019
Crew 211 – UCL to Mars
Submitted by Science Officer Maxime Bernard

1) Commander Carl Dahlqvist

He finished his code yesterday and he still testing it today.

He also tested the hardware side of the main module as well as mounted and tested 4 of the 7 secondary modules.

2) XO Officer

Finishing and testing the trilateration algorithm of his ultra-wide bandwidth system.

3) HSO Officer Benjamin Flasse

Every morning and every evening, the HSO still gather data about the measurements, weight, brain awakeness, tension and pulse of the crew.

He has now enough data to start analyzing his CFFF-cortical arousal graphics.

4) Crew Astronomer Eleonore Lieffrig

Working on the density probability via the Direct Fourier transform method while coding an algorithm that should allow her to verify the non-dependency of the colloidal particles Brownian motion with regards to the gravity.

5) Crew Engineer Julien Amalaberque

He studied the performance and efficiency of simultaneous location and mapping algorithm depending on the resolution of video streams coming from Intel RealSence D435i camera.

6) Crew Biologist Chloé Peduzzi

Spent the day preparing her Petri dish.

7) Crew Journalist Nathan Pechon

We had a new meeting to talk about the value of life on Mars and how to deal with criminality.

He then worked on his own on different law articles that resulted from in what was said the previous talks. He is glad these debates aren’t sterile but on the contrary, very constructive and animated.

8) Crew Scientist Maxime Bernard

Keeping up with the data acquisition. Some issues are already appearing with the counting statistic.