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Sol Summary – July 25th
Written by Jon Clarke Sol 6 (or 86) You won’t read it in “The National Enquirer” but you will read it here: Mosquitoes on Mars! The wind and dropped and it wasn’t raining so Paul, Yusuke donned the EVA suits and with and Anastasiya as shotgun took the quad bikes into the crater on EVA…
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Science Report – July 25th
REGOLITH-LANDFORM UNITS AT HAUGHTON CRATER Jonathan Clarke WHAT IS REGOLITH? “Regolith” is a general term used to refer to all weathered earth surface materials extending from the interface with unweathered bedrock at depth to the surface (Eggleton 2001). It includes in situ weathered material derived directly from the underlying bedrock, and transported material derived from…
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Picture of the Day – July 25th
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Crew Photos – July 25th
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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