December 31, 2025 – Mars Desert Research Station

Mission Support is signing off. Best wishes for your New Year celebrations!

Report status for Sol 3:

Sol Summary: Received
Operations Report: Received
Greenhab Report: Received
Journalist Report: Received
Astronomy Report (if applicable): NA
EVA Report (if applicable): Received
EVA Request(s) (if applicable): Received
Daily photos: Received

Brett Bennett
Onsite Operations Manager
Mars Desert Research Station

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.

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Day: December 31, 2025

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