EVA Report – April 30th – Mars Desert Research Station

Crew 315 EVA Report 30-04-2025

EVA # 19

Author: David Laude

Purpose of EVA: Search for desiccated soil in Candor Chasma

Start time: 13:06

End time: 14:43

Narrative: We took about a 1KM walk into Candor Chasma finding desiccated soils. We didn’t stay long due to anticipated high winds and possible rain.

Destination: Candor Chasma

Coordinates: Easting 519800, Northing 4251500

EVA Participants: David Laude (Commander), Elena Saavedra Buckley (Journalist/GreenHab)

Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Exit MDRS onto Cow Dung Road. Next the crew will turn on Galileo Road until Compass Rock, then will proceed down an unmarked road heading south until reaching the Gateway to Candor.

Mode of travel: Rover and walking

About The MDRS

The Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert was established by the Mars Society in 2001 to better educate researchers, students and the general public about how humans can survive on the Red Planet. It is the second Mars analogue habitat after the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station was established in 2000.

Over 200 crews of six-person teams have lived in 1-2 week field visits at MDRS to simulate life on the Martian surface. Researchers and students alike have explored the Mars-like terrain in the area surrounding the station in full “spacesuits”, maintained the station’s systems, grown plants in the GreenHab to support themselves and even recycled their waste water.

Our activities at MDRS are not only about informing the public, but also conducting real research to bring humanity that much closer to the reality of human exploration on the planet Mars.

Annual field seasons at MDRS run approx. October through May. Anybody can apply to be on a crew, and we also need volunteers to help with the project.

Management Team

Mission Support

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EVA Report – April 30th

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