GreenHab Report – January 9th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 326
Position: GreenHab Officer
Report prepared by: Vindhya Ganti
Date: 1-9-2025
Sol: 12
Environmental control (fan & heater):
GH Fan Max: 80 degrees F
GH Fan Min 75 degrees F
Heating: 73 degrees F
Average temperatures (last 24h): 77.55 degrees F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 86.8 degrees F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 68.3 degrees F
Hours of supplemental light: 2 hours
Daily water usage for crops: 2 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: No
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 145 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 11:30
Changes to crops:
Narrative: Sprayed liqui-grow onto vegetables, watered microgreens and plants. Paper towel group is not progressing vertically or undergoing significant growth, but the vermicular group remains even taller, with several leaves per plant. Vermicular group is ready to be planted into soil.
Harvest: No harvest.
Support/supplies needed: None

GreenHab Report – January 26th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 328
Position: Greenhab Officer
Report prepared by: Rebeca Goncalves
Date: 26-01-2026
Sol: 1

Environmental control (fan & amp; heater): Fan max: 85F, Fan min: 80F, Heater: 70F

Average temperatures (last 24h): 76.2F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 84.5F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 67.8

Hours of supplemental light: 2h (6pm to 8pm)

Daily water usage for crops: 0
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 159 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: TBA

Changes to crops: N/A
Narrative: Material was moved to the greenhouse today, but the experiment is awaiting for soil sample collection before being set up.
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A
Support/supplies needed: Emailed GreenHab Coordinator to ask about revisions to supplemental lighting schedule

GreenHab Report – January 27th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 328
Position: Greenhab Officer
Report prepared by: Rebeca Goncalves
Date: 27/01/2026
Sol: 2

Environmental control (fan & heater): Fan max: 85F, Fan min: 80F, Heater: 70F
Average temperatures (last 24h): 76.2F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 84.8F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 67.2

Hours of supplemental light: 5:30h (6pm to 11:30pm)

Daily water usage for crops: 0
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 158 gallons remaining

Time(s) of watering for crops: TBA
Changes to crops: N/A

Narrative: Soil preparation has begun. Seeds will be sown tomorrow.
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A
Support/supplies needed: N/A

GreenHab Report – January 28th

Report title: GreenHab ReportCrew #: 328
Position: Greenhab Officer
Report prepared by: Rebeca Goncalves
Date: 28/01/2026
Sol: 3

Environmental control (fan & heater): Fan max: 85F, Fan min: 80F, Heater: 70F
Average temperatures (last 24h): 77.8F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 88.7F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 66.8F

Hours of supplemental light: 5:30h (6pm to 11:30pm)

Daily water usage for crops: 3
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 9
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 146 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 7pm

Changes to crops: N/A

Narrative:
The 3 experiments are now fully set up in the greenhab.
The Greenhab Officer is responsible for Exp. 1 and 2 (Exp.1 studies tomato seeds sent to space planted in Mars regolith simulant; Exp. 2 studies microgreens planted in soil system and hydroponics system). All seeds have been sown.
The Crew Engineer is responsible for Exp. 3 (Exp.3 studies the viability of a 3D printed hydroponic system on mars using 2 different types of material). No plants are involved.

Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A

Support/supplies needed: N/A

GreenHab Report – January 29th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 328
Position: Greenhab Officer
Report prepared by: Rebeca Goncalves
Date: 29/01/2026
Sol: 4

Environmental control (fan & heater): Fan max: 85F, Fan min: 80F, Heater: 70F
Average temperatures (last 24h): 77.8F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 84.4F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 66.8F

Hours of supplemental light: 5:30h (6pm to 11:30pm)

Daily water usage for crops: 0
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 3
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 143 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 7pm

Changes to crops: N/A
Narrative: No germination recorded yet.
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A

Support/supplies needed: N/A

Photos attached.

GreenHab Report – January 30th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 328
Position: Greenhab Officer
Report prepared by: Rebeca Goncalves
Date: 30/01/2026
Sol: 5

Environmental control (fan & heater): Fan max: 85F, Fan min: 80F, Heater: 70F
Average temperatures (last 24h): 75.9F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 85F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 66.8

Hours of supplemental light: 5:30h (6pm to 11:30pm)

Daily water usage for crops: 1
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 142 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 7pm

Changes to crops: seeds from hydroponics started to germinate

Narrative: watered crops and noted down germination rate for both hydroponics and soil system for Exp. 2. Tomatoes (Exp 1) have not yet germinated. Greenhouses remain covered.

Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A

Support/supplies needed: 1 gallon of distilled water (from greenhab shelf). 0.5 gallons remain.

GreenHab Report – January 31st

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 328
Position: Greenhab Officer
Report prepared by: Rebeca Goncalves
Date: 31/01/2026
Sol: 6

Environmental control (fan & heater): Fan max: 85F, Fan min: 80F, Heater: 70F
Average temperatures (last 24h): 76.4F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 85.5F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 67.3F

Hours of supplemental light: 5:30h (6pm to 11:30pm)

Daily water usage for crops: 2.7gal
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0.3gal
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 140 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 7pm

Changes to crops: Exp 1: No changes. Exp 2: Hydroponics showed first photosynthetic cotyledons. First radish seeds germinated in Martian regolith.

Narrative: Greenhab was cleaned and tidied today. The seed cover for Exp 2 hydroponic was removed since cotyledons are now showing and need light to grow.

Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A

Support/supplies needed: N/A

Pictures attached.

GreenHab Report – <date – November 10th>

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew # 322
Position: GreenHab Officer
Report prepared by: Leszek Orzechowski
Date: 10-11-2025
Sol: 1

Environmental control (fan & heater): GH Heater: 60 F, GH Fan max 80 F, GH Fan min 75
Average temperatures (last 24h): 80 F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 112 F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 60F
Hours of supplemental light: : Suplemental lights are turned off
Daily water usage for crops: 20 liters
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes:
Time(s) of watering for crops: 10 am 6:30 PM
Changes to crops: none to report
Soil Moisture Level: Changed from Moist to Wet
Microgreen Growth Experiment: We will start microgreens tomorrow
Space Nutrition Task: part of the SubTask – 1 Food inventory for the mission complete – next step is to add nutritional values to each food item. Seeds in the green hab were also reviewed for the Space Nutrition Task
Harvest: no harvest to report

Support/supplies needed: would appreciate some instructions for new growbox.

GreenHab Report – <date – November 11th>

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew # 322
Position: GreenHab Officer
Report prepared by: Leszek Orzechowski
Date: 11-11-2025
Sol: 2

Environmental control (fan & heater): GH Heater: 60 F, GH Fan max 80 F, GH Fan min 75
Average temperatures (last 24h): 80 F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 120 F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 60F
Hours of supplemental light: : Supplemental lights are turned off
Water usage for crops: 8 liters
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: none
Time(s) of watering for crops: 10 am 7:30 PM
Changes to crops: new micro greens were set up – I only used already opened micro greens seeds
Soil Moisture Level: From moist to wet after watering the plants
Microgreen Growth Experiment: SpeCES experiment starter with 2 black trays inside the cabinet and 2 outside. The whole setup is no the Greenhab.
Space Nutrition Task: Part 1 Nutrines Catalog is well underway. We only have 2h of Internet a day (also for personal use not only mission related uses) so it is very challenging to work on it when you need to tap into the Internet for values. We will make progress but the mission profile is what it is 🙂

Harvest: no harvest to report

GreenHab Report – December 20th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 325
Position: Green Habitat Officer
Report prepared by: Adrianna Capitola Waterford
Date: 20Dec2025
Sol: 5

Environmental control (fan & heater): Operating
Average temperatures (last 24h): 75
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 87
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 72
Hours of supplemental light: 0
Daily water usage for crops: 1 gal
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: Hydroponics
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 157 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 18:30
Changes to crops: More microgreens planted and crop beds have been revived from the previous crew.
Narrative: Hydroponics system is still being monitored.
Harvest: 10 grams of Basil collected for Pizza
Support/supplies needed: None

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