Report title: Journalist Report
Crew #: 330
Position: Journalist
Report prepared by: Adrien Saugnac
Date: (26-02-2026)
Sol: 11
Journalist Report Title (if applicable) : Finding the North without magnetic field
Last night, Félix organized an activity in the GreenHab. Everyone was able to plant flower seeds in their pots. If everything goes well, they will sprout out of the ground in 2 days and will have grown in 15 days.
This morning, Adèle organized a cardio session. After that, it was EVA orienteering for the team with the 2D map: Adèle and Gaspard. I went with them to organize the race, take photos and videos with the drone. Before leaving, they had a preparation time to preview the positions of the beacons on the 2D map. Then, we moved by rover to Compass Rock and we went to the starting point of the race by foot. We started the stopwatch and Gaspard and Adèle were able to begin the race. In 30 minutes, they found 5 beacons out of 8, which gave them 5 letters that form a word. They managed to guess it. The outing was very physical, it was very hot, and we returned exhausted. Tomorrow, the team with the 3D map will do the same race and we will compare their results.
Meanwhile, Julien, Célia, and Félix worked on writing abstracts and an article. An abstract is a summary that allows proposing a scientific publication on an experiment or aspect of our mission at the occasion of a conference. Célia and Félix started writing an abstract about the Lab’Ex experiment for the IAC. Julien almost finished writing an article on our scientific mediation activities he will present at the SSEA conference in Munich in April.
This afternoon, Félix worked on his botanist project. He prepared the pots that will host micro sprouts of watercress. His Raspberry is programmed to automatically take measurements of temperature, humidity, and light.
Gaspard, Lou, and Célia continued working on the repair of the opening mechanism of the observatory and started building a new limit mechanism. They were almost able to install it, and Célia will be able to make solar observations tomorrow!