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FMARS-15 Crew Journalist Report 24-07-2023
Crew Journalist Report – Sol 1: Preparing the Hab By D. Terry Trevino Devon Island, Arctic – It’s Sol one on Devon Island, and Crew 15 is embracing the challenges and excitement of rehabilitating the research station owned and operated by The Mars Society. The commanding officer, Andrew Wheeler, reminded us this morning that we…
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FMARS-15 Sol Summary Report 24-07-2023
Crew 15 Sol Summary Report 24-07-2023 Sol: 1 Summary Title: Preparing the Hab Author’s name: D. Terry Trevino Mission Status: All Nominal Sol Activity Summary: After about 8 hours of sleep, our day began with a solid breakfast of cereal and crystalized eggs mixed with bacon. Every day, we awake knowing, we are a team…
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FMARS 15 Commander notes 24-07-2023
Author: Andrew Wheeler, Commander, FMARS-15 FMARS 15 Commander notes – Sol 1 Weather: High cirrus cloud early, sunny. Winds light to variable early then building to gentlethrough the afternoon. Temperature low to mid teens celsius.The crew are ready to carry out EVAs in sim but the suits require some repairs, the life supportequipment needs servicing…
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FMARS-15 Crew Arrives at Station – July 16, 2023
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that Crew 15 has safely arrived on Devon Island in northern Canada to begin a four-week mission at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) involving scientific testing and field studies, along with repair and maintenance work on the main hab. The crew, a five-person multi-national team from the United Kingdom, Australia,…
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Mars160 FMARS Final Mission Report
Hello from Mars, 火星からこんにちは (Kasei kara konnichiwa), Привет с Марса (Privet s Marsa), मंगल ग्रह से नमस्ते (Mangal grah se Namaste), Salutations Martiennes, This is the final expedition of the Mars 160 program. We are 6 people living in the F-MARS, in the High Arctic, far from home. Over here we can…
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Science Report – August 14th
ENDEAVOUR CRATER (MARS) AND HAUGHTON CRATER (EARTH): A COMPARISON Jonathan Clarke Introduction One of the primary justifications for the location of F-MARS here on Devon Island is the presence of the Haughton impact crater (Zubrin 2004). This is one of the most studied impact craters on Earth. Useful summaries can be found in the…
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Daily Summary – August 14th
Daily Report Jon Clarke August 14, 2017 Our sim ended last amidst wild weather. Because the sim is over, I am calling this a daily report, rather than a sol summary. It blew hard all night but about midnight the rain stopped and was replaced by light snow. This had stopped by about 8 am. …
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Journalist Report – August 13th
Anastasiya Stepanova What we are doing here? Many of you might think: “Why they have to make all the way to the Arctic, where it is risky, expensive and unreliable? Why not do it the same way as Mars-500, where the station located in the middle of the city, but fully isolated and had a…
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Crew Photos – August 13th
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Picture of the Day – August 13th
