Crew Photos – March 11th
Journalist Report – March 6th
SOL 17: Here comes the Sun!
“Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.” – The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The rescheduled EVA disrupted our routine today. Indeed, we are used to performing EVAs in the morning. But today, to solve 3D map’s errors and do photogrammetry again to Candor Chasma, Yves, Mathurin, and Leo chose to go out when the Sun was at its highest point, to avoid having too much shadow in the drone’s pictures. The EVA was performed between 10 A.M and 2 P.M. The Crew was warmer than usual in their suits! However, they think that they will be able to generate a better 3D map than the previous one, thanks to the strategy they followed on site. Yves started to sort the pictures this afternoon, trying to keep some pictures from the previous EVA. He will let the software process the new photos, and we will use the new 3D map tomorrow to prepare the next EVA!
During the EVA, Léa, Marie, Lise and I stayed inside the station. We were very efficient too! While I was in contact (as HabCom) with Yves, the EVA Leader, Lise improved the code to read our Core Data sets, recorded by the impedance meter every morning. Her objective is to make the code as robust as possible, to enable future crews to use it as well, and compare our data to theirs. Meanwhile, Marie worked on AMI’s deployment, now mostly operational. We now have the final version of the software, enabling us to simulate the station’s power management and to simulate sensor anomalies that we need to check in the modules placed in “warning” mode. These anomalies can get worse and become an emergency, forcing us to apply an emergency EVA protocol. The last good news of the day concerns Léa, our Crew astronomer. Deprived of the Solar Observatory since the beginning of the mission because of a malfunction, it was fixed this morning, so she could perform her first solar observations! She was very happy, but she could only observe our star for a few hours this morning, because of the afternoon’s cloud coverage… The Crew hopes for the Martian weather to be merciful so she can continue her astronomy project, focusing on sunspot detection, and on evaluating their speed and direction.
For lunch, we cooked carbonara pasta. Thinking about it, we didn’t use all the carbonara pastas’ ingredients. No bacon, no “crème fraiche”. Indeed, we don’t have all these ingredients in our dehydrated food, but we found a great alternative that we use in a lot of our meals… Bechamel! We became professionals of the recipe with dehydrated food! It is always delicious, but we are starting to miss earthly food, we all dream of eating good ‘Schokobons’!
Astronomy Report – March 6th
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Astronomy Report
Name: Léa BOURGELY
Crew: 293
Date: 03/06/2024
SOLAR OBSERVATORY
Robotic Telescope Requested: MLC-RCOS16
Objects to be Imaged this Evening: None
Images submitted with this report: Sunspots
Additional Notes:
The lower part of the dome was stuck.
Sol Summary – March 6th
Crew 293 Sol Summary Report 06-03-2024
Sol: 17
Summary Title: Here Comes the Sun
Author’s name: Marie Delaroche, Crew Commander
Mission Status: Nominal
Sol Activity Summary:
A very productive day for the entire crew! This morning, our Crew Astronomer was over the moon to hear that the missing part in the Solar Observatory was replaced, and that she could start her astronomy project! She spent most of her morning setting up in the observatory, while the boys’ team was once again roaming Candor Chasma. They decided to return there to re-capture a better quality 3D map for the Photogrammetry experiment, and returned quite content from their outing! They have until tomorrow afternoon to generate the map, an operation which requires a lot of computing power.
A few of Sol 17’s successes: the simulated alarms for the AMI interface are operational, our Crew HSO had a breakthrough in coding her data aggregator for our health data sets, and Léa and I continued working on outreach articles in the afternoon. Established studies are still running smoothly.
Look Ahead Plan:
Two exploration EVAs are planned this week, on Sols 19 (3D team) and 20 (2D Team). On Sol 19, we will request to pilot the drone from the Science Dome.
Anomalies in work: EVA suits 3,4,5,7,9
Weather: Sunny, then mostly cloudy, low 5°C, high 15°C
Crew Physical Status: Nominal
EVA: Photogrammetry at Candor Chasma
Reports to be filed: Sol Summary, Journalist’s Report, GreenHab Report, Operations Report, Photos (6-8 pics), EVA Reports, Astronomy Report
Support Requested: In the coming Sols, there will be random alarms generated by the AMI interface. The Crew has been briefed on how to react to these; most of the time, they will be simple sensor anomalies, but they can turn out to be depressurization alarms. In this case, we will need to perform an emergency EVA to “repair” (i.e. perform a simple task outside to simulate a repair operation) the module.
Therefore, we are requesting the authorization to radio Mission Support when an emergency depressurization EVA is “required” by the interface. These will, of course, only take place when the weather conditions permit it.
Operations Report – March 6th
Crew 293 Operations Report 06-03-2024
SOL: 17
Name of person filing report: Leo Tokaryev
Non-nominal systems:
Notes on non-nominal systems:
ROVERS
Spirit rover used:no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Opportunity rover used:yes
Hours:165.3
Beginning charge:100
Ending charge:52
Currently charging:no
Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 269.9
Beginning charge:100
Ending charge:42
Currently charging:no
Perseverance rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
General notes on rovers:
Summary of Hab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 15.6 gallons
Water (static tank): 239.3 gallons
Static tank pipe heater (on or off):On
Static tank heater (On or off)On
Toilet tank emptied: yes
Summary of internet: none
Summary of suits and radios:
Summary of GreenHab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 6 gallons
Heater: On
Supplemental light: 22h-2h automatic
Harvest: none
Summary of ScienceDome operations: none
Dual split: Heat or AC, On
Summary of RAM operations: none
Summary of any observatory issues: none
Summary of health and safety issues: none
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: we have left some trash in the rear airlock, could you please take it out?
EVA Report – March 6th
Crew 293 EVA Report 06Mar2024
EVA #012
Author: Yves Bejach (EVA Leader)
Purpose of EVA: Going back to Candor Chasma to create a better 3D map. As usual, we’ll go through the atmospheric site for data retrieval and changing batteries
Start time: 10:00
End time: 13:36
Narrative: We quickly changed the batteries and retrieved the data of the atmospheric instruments then went back to Candor Chasma. We scanned the area again, with a new strategy.
Suit 8 – 13,18V
Suit 6 – 13,36V 2,5 LPM
Suit 1 – 13,37V – 2,6 LPM
9:55 Start of the EVA
10:00 Out on Mars
10:04 Opportunity 165.3 100%
10:04 Curiosity 269.9 100%
10:06 Atmospheric instrument’s site, unloading the rovers
10:18 Data retrieved, battery switched, instruments turned on, going back to the rovers
10:19 Leaving the site with the rovers
10:21 Switching to channel 1
10:29 Galileo Road
10:36 Compass Rock, leaving the rovers, walking to Candor Chasma
10:48 Arrived at the entrance of Candor Chasma
11:08 end of the canyon, starting photogrammetry soon (15min of walk to go back to rovers)
11:25 to 12:41 Everything is okay. Contacting every 15min
12:47 Photogrammetry finished, soon leaving Candor Chasma
13:03 Out of Candor Chasma, walking back to the rovers
13:13 Back to the rovers, leaving the site
13:19 Stopped to take pictures, leaving the picture’s site
13:24 Passing in front of North Ridge
13:29 Opportunity 52%, Curiosity 42%
13:31 Pressurization start
13:36 End of EVA, back into the Hab
Suit 8: 12,76V
Suit 6: 12,88V 2,2
Suit 1: 12,91V 2,3
Destination: Atmospheric site: between the Hab and Marble Ritual and then Candor Chasma
Coordinates (use UTM WGS 84): Atmospheric Site: 518500,4251000 ; Candor Chasma: 520500,4251000
Participants: Yves Bejach, Leo Tokaryev, Mathurin Franck
Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road, North direction by rover then walking through Gateway to Candor.
Modes of travel: Curiosity Rover and Opportunity Rover and walking
GreenHab Report – March 6th
Crew 293 GreenHab Report 06-03-2024
GreenHab Officer: Mathurin FRANCK
Environmental control: (heater, fan, door open?) Heater/fan turning on automatically
Average temperatures: between 70°F- 90°F
Hours of supplemental light: 10pm-2am
Daily water usage for crops: 6G
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: None
Water in Blue Tank (200 gallon capacity): 192 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 9:15 am 7:00pm
Changes to crops:
None
Narrative: /
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams): None
Support/supplies needed: /
EVA Report – March 8th
Crew 293 EVA Report 08-03-2024
EVA 13
Author: Leo Tokaryev
Purpose of EVA: 3D Photogrammetry EVA at Candor Chasma
Start time: 08:48
End time:12:34
Narrative:
08:35 all suits are tested and are above 13V
08:48 beginning of depressurization
08:53 end of depressurization
08:55 rovers are loaded, drone is deployed
08:56 drone taking off
Curiosity: 100%, 270.3(Yves)
Opportunity: 100%, 165.9(Marie and Lise)
08:59 leaving to atmospheric instruments site
09:01: arriving at site
09:16 data retrieved
09:19 drone landed
09:26 drone taking off second time
09:30 leaving the site and heading to candor chasma
09:33 switching to channel 1
09:45 parked, start to walking towards candor chasma
09:47 the drone has landed
10:00 entrance to candor chasma
10:20 tentative of contact, can’t hear very well
10:34 halfway through finding
10:50 everything is ok
11:16 done searching, taking pictures and getting ready to go back
11:44 walking towards the rovers
12:06 back at the rovers
12:09 leaving candor chasma
12:25 back at campus
Curiosity 38%
Opportunity 48%
12:29 beginning of pressurization
12:34 end of pressurization and successful end of EVA
Suits 1,2 and 3 respectively: 12.82, 12.56, 12.57
Destination: Candor Chasma
Coordinates (use UTM WGS 84): 520500, 4251000
Participants: Marie(EVA Leader), Yves and Lise
Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road, North direction, then Galileo Road to Compass Rock
Mode of travel: Rovers and walking
Operations Report – March 8th
Crew 293 Operations Report 08-03-2024
SOL: 19
Name of person filing report: Leo Tokaryev
Non-nominal systems:
Notes on non-nominal systems:
ROVERS
Spirit rover used:no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Opportunity rover used:yes
Hours:165.9
Beginning charge:100
Ending charge:48
Currently charging:yes
Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 270.3
Beginning charge:100
Ending charge:38
Currently charging:yes
Perseverance rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
General notes on rovers:
Summary of Hab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 18.7 gallons
Water (static tank): 208 gallons
Static tank pipe heater (on or off):On
Static tank heater (On or off)On
Toilet tank emptied: no
Summary of internet: none
Summary of suits and radios:
Summary of GreenHab operations: put notes here
WATER USE: 8 gallons
Heater: On
Supplemental light: 22h-2h automatic
Harvest: none
Summary of ScienceDome operations: none
Dual split: Heat or AC, On
Summary of RAM operations: none
Summary of any observatory issues: none
Summary of health and safety issues: none
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:none
Crew Photos – March 8th
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