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Engineering Report – August 5th
Alexandre Mangeot All system running properly.
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Sol Summary – August 5th
Jon Clarke Sol 17 (or 97) Early rest day this week, in the hope that the weather will be improving over the next couple of days. It is slightly better than yesterday, which gives us grounds for optimism! Pancakes again for breakfast, thanks to Anastasiya. Today people have been napping, reading, watching videos on their…
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Sol Summary – August 4th
Jon Clarke Sol 16 (or 96) We woke this morning to a great silence. Looking out the windows (after wiping all the condensation off them) I saw the reason: we were enveloped in thick fog. Visibility was down to less than 200m. It stayed like this most of the day, there were a few times…
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Commander Report – August 4th
Alexandre Mangeot I had few arguments with one crewmember. Mostly due to lack of clear communication. We are working on that. Nothing to be worried about. Today, the fog did not allow us to perform even an unsuited EVA. Tomorrow, is set as a day off. Sunday we will resume operations.
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Engineering Report – August 4th
Alexandre Mangeot The previous pee barrel has been put away. It was nearly full. The ground condition is not good enough to move it to the disposal area. So it is still under the Hab, closed and secure.
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Science Report – August 4th
HAUGHTON IMPACT STRUCTURE AND EVIDENCE OF PRIMITIVE LIFE By Anushree Srivastava – Crew Biologist Investigating the impact-induced hydrothermal gypsum deposits in Haughton Impact crater is one of my principal objectives as Mars-based scientist. With our Crew Geologist Dr Jon Clarke and our Earth-based scientist Dr Alfonso Davila of NASA Ames Research Centre and SETI Institute,…
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Commander Report – August 3rd
Written by Alexandre Mangeot Some glitches among the crew. Nothing to be concerned about. But I have probably been too transparent the last few days and some crewmembers are not feeling well about that. I will assume a stronger role from now on. We did not performed the second half of the comparative EVA today.…
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Engineering Report – August 3rd
Written by Alexandre Mangeot All systems running well. Water fetched this morning being afraid that tomorrow with the heavy rain, it will be more unpleasant.
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Sol Summary – August 3rd
Sol 15 (or 95) The forecast rain did arrive and, although it’s no windy, it was verywet this morning from about 10 am with scattered showers thisafternoon and this evening. Much to our disappointment we had to cancel our scheduled EVA, a follow up to yesterday’s operational investigation. The most we could manage under the…
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Picture of the Day – August 3rd
