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Sol Summary – July 28th
Written by Jon Clarke Sol 9 (or 89) Today illustrates the impact of weather on operations up here in the Arctic. Paul, Anushree and I planned doing a long EVA almost to the other side of Haughton crater, to the Haughton river. Objectives combined scouting and sampling. Just over 8 km as the snowy owl…
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Picture of the Day – July 28th
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Sol Summary – July 27th
Written by Jon Clarke Sol 8 (or 88) Very still overnight, and when we woke we found out why; the fog had come in and the hab was enveloped in cloud. We could still see the crater floor though, so the cloud base must have been just below us. The fog gradually lifted, and when…
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Journalist Report – July 27th
The “rock” history reader Bass-voiced, fine beard, kind eyes. Sometimes we call him the master of popcorn. Paul Knightly is our crew geologist from Kansas and today he is turning 13.5 Martian years old. Another birthday on Mars! Another day to show our creativity in extreme place with limited resources. As a kid Paul wanted…
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Commander Report – July 27th
Written by Alexandre Mangeot Today I decided to send the EVA crew in sim during morning. According to yesterday weather forecast, the weather was supposed to be better in the morning than in the afternoon. Actually the weather went bad later in the afternoon. We currently are unable to see further than 50m due to…
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Engineering Report – July 27th
Written by Alexandre Mangeot I checked the breakers. All are in proper working condition. My hypothesis now is that the staterooms are not connected. I will not proceed further. All systems are running good.
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Picture of the Day – July 27th
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Crew Photos – July 27th
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Commander Report – July 26th
Written by Alexandre Mangeot Morale is good. The weather is still playing with us. After one week of operations, it is clear that during EVA out of sim, it will not rain, and during EVA in sim, it will rain… Murf? Get out of there! One EVA today. Paul did a trench of a polygon.…
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Engineering Report – July 26th
Written by Alexandre Mangeot All good. Water fetched this morning. ATV refuelled yesterday evening.
