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Engineering Report – July 24th
Written by Alexandre Mangeot This morning we found one of the battery cable torn off from the generator. We scavenged the cable from the new generator to make the repair. It was early in the morning, and the proper course of action might have been to put online the new generator instead of using its…
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Commander Report – July 24th
Written by Alexandre Mangeot The crew morale was a bit down this morning. We have not seen the sun for a longtime and we feel like it is winter out there. Again today, there were showers during the EVA time. So the EVA crew (Jon/Anushree/Yusuke) went in out of sim excursion. They scout a second…
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Journalist Report – July 24th
Written by Anastasiya Stepanova The man with a big heart and an alien mind Today is a birthday of an extraordinary crew member! We are in a bind – how to make a birthday party with limited resources and for a very creative man? The cake and nice dinner from dehydrated food? Toasting with a…
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Crew Photos – July 24th
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Sol Summary – July 24th
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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Picture of the Day – July 24th
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Picture of the Day – July 23rd
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Crew Photos – July 23rd
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Sol Summary – July 23rd
Written by Jon Clarke Sol 4 (or 84) The weather on the fourth sol of the second half of the Mars 160 mission improved slightly today, but not by much. Almost no rain, but wind gusts estimated by our experience weather observers as being up to 80 kph. Inside the hab we have our own…
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Weekly Report – July 23rd
Sunday 16th of July 2017. A red bi-propeller plane is approaching a brownish hill in the High Arctic. On top of it, sits for 17 years now a tuna can habitat named Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station. After few low fly-bys, the plane is slowing down, landing 2.5 km from the Hab… The station is…
