Journalist Report
Crew 319
Position: Crew Journalist
Report prepared by: Mackenzie Calle
Date: 17-10-2025
Sol: 5
Report from Sol 5
Reporting from Sol 5 10.17.25 5:59PM. The theme of the day was two – two EVAs, with two crew each, for 2.5 hours each. Crew Scientist Shriya Musuku and Crew Journalist Mackenzie Calle embarked on the first EVA this morning, departing in Spirit Rover. Crew was inspired by the landscape as this was the farthest we have ventured since being on Mars. After passing Galileo Road however, crew lost comms with Habcom and spent most of the EVA trying to reestablish communication and understand where we were losing signal. Crew eventually needed to abort mission and make their way back to the hab.
EVA Crew 2 today with Commander Rym Chaid and Crew Engineer Ricardo J. Gonzalez found significantly more success with radio communication. We established that the comms were significantly better when facing in the direction of North Ridge. Crew made their way to a different destination than intended but walked to the beautiful North Ridge hills to begin geological sampling.
Overall crew is feeling good about the EVAs and learned a lot of lessons that we can carry forward for the rest of the mission.