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Journalist Report – February 25th

Report title: Journalist Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Journalist

Report prepared by: Adrien Saugnac

Date: (25-02-2026)

Sol: 10

Journalist Report Title (if applicable) : Mars as far as the eye can see

We woke up with a dance session prepared by Adèle and Lou. We started with 20 minutes of Just Dance and then we followed a Bachata class from Lou.

Today, we kept on exploring ! This time, Lou, Célia and Gaspard went in the direction of Kissing Camel Ridge. They were able to bring the PARROT drone to take some beautiful videos from the base, the rovers and their exploration by foot. Once again, they discovered new landscapes before their amazed eyes. Coming back from the EVA, Gaspard told us : “You can witness Mars as far as the eye can see, there is no sign of life there”.

Meanwhile, Julien went to the Science Dome to perform an Orbital Architecture session and Félix planted the radishes and worked on his RaspBerry Pi. Adèle prepared her next HSO briefs: we will keep on practicing with the tools that can help and guide us for our introspection and relationship with others. In the context of isolation, our social interactions are limited to those we have inside the crew. It is very important to keep working and informing ourselves on Non Violent Communication. Whether it is in our everyday life, but even more while we are on a mission like this one, having tools that allow us to learn more about ourselves strengthens our connexion with others. This guarantees a healthy climate in the station, where the needs and limits of everyone are fully respected.

In the beginning of the afternoon, we did a team brief for the preparation of the mid-mission video. We are going to film a short movie about what we are living and the experiments we are conducting.

Adèle then went to the Science Dome to install the NeuroErgo experiment, so that Julien and Gaspard could then perform their sessions. With Célia, we went to the observatory to identify why the roof refuses to open, preventing any solar observation for the last 3 sols. After testing the voltage of the batteries, we detected an issue on a mechanical stop for the opening mechanism.

In the end of the afternoon, Lou and I finalized the preparation of the Photogrammetry experiment. Tomorrow, a first team will leave with the 2D version of the map to do the orienteering race we prepared on Sol 9.

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Astronomy Report – February 25th

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Report title: Astronomy Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Crew Astronomer

Report prepared by: Célia Parnaud–Amy

Date: 25-02-2026

Sol: 10

MDRS ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY

Robotic Telescope Requested (choose one MDRS-14 or MDRS-WF): N/A

Objects to be Imaged this Evening: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: N/A

MUSK OBSERVATORY

Solar Features Observed: N/A

Images submitted with this report: N/A

Problems Encountered: The battery wasn’t the issue in the opening of the dome. It is a wooden piece near the opening box that seems to be blocking. I am in contact with Peter to solve it.

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EVA Report – February 25th

Report title: EVA Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Crew Astronomer

Report prepared by: Célia Parnaud–Amy

Date: 25-02-2026

Sol: 10

EVA #: 09

Purpose of EVA:

Exploration of the Kissing Camel zone. We will start with Robert’s Rock Garden and the West side of the feature. If we still have the time, we will survey the East side but staying in sight of Cow Dung Road.

Start time: 9:51

End time: 11:39

Narrative: We went to Robert’s Rock Garden with the rovers and we started exploring Kissing Camel Ridge W. We walked a lot in the canyon, and took a lot of pictures. We used the drone to take panoramic pictures of the zone. The area was really breathtaking. We also took panoramic view of the station with the drone.

Destination per MDRS Map: Kissing Camel Ridge and Robert’s Rock Garden

Destination Coordinates (use UTM WGS 84): 518000E, 4249250N

EVA Participants:

– EVA Leader : Célia, Astronomer

– Lou, Engineer

– Gaspard, Commander

Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road towards South

Mode of travel: driving and walking

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Operations Report – February 25th

Report title: Operations Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Crew Engineer

Report prepared by: Lou Goiffon

Date: 25-02-2026

Sol: 10

Non-nominal systems: The automatic observatory dome door seems to be blocked by a wooden piece near the opening, the astronomer has contacted Peter to solve this (see astronomy report)

Notes on non-nominal systems: N/A

ROVERS

Spirit rover used: Yes

Hours: 296.9

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 63%

Currently charging: YES

Opportunity rover used : No

Hours (Before EVA):

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging: YES

Curiosity rover used: Yes

Hours (Before EVA): 347.7

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 63%

Currently charging: YES

Perseverance rover used: No

Hours (Before EVA):

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging:

General notes on rovers:

Summary of Hab operations:

Water Use (see notes): 23.32 gal/d

Main tank level (remaining gallons, see notes): 154.6 gallons

Main water tank pipe heater (ON or OFF): ON

Main water tank heater (ON or OFF): ON

Toilet tank emptied (NO or YES): NO

Summary of internet: downlink 153.51 Mbits/s, uplink 20.14 Mbits/s, ping 19 ms

Summary of suits and radios:

– N°3 : Beginning charge 100%, ending charge 83%

– N°6 : Beginning charge 100%, ending charge 84%

– N°1 : Beginning charge 100%, ending charge 96%

All the GPS beacons worked very well

The battery of the backpack N°4 has been replaced and is working well ( lost 0.5 V after a 2h running test)

Summary of GreenHab operations: (use information from the GreenHab report)

Water use: 2.5 gallons

Heater (ON or OFF): ON

Supplemental light (hours of operation): 6pm – 11:30pm

Harvest (name, weight in grams): 0

Summary of ScienceDome operations: Human factors experiments conducted

Dual split (Heat or AC, On or Off or Automatic): ON

Summary of RAM operations: Soldering and electronics

Summary of any observatory issues: N/A

Summary of health and safety issues: None

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: N/A

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Sol Summary – February 25th

Report title: Sol Summary Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Crew Commander

Report prepared by: Gaspard THIEULIN

Date: 25/02/2026

Sol: 10

Summary Title: A productive day

Mission Status: Going great

Sol Activity Summary:
This morning we woke up with a dance session prepared by Adèle and Lou. We all had a good night of sleep and feel quite rested. At breakfast, we tasted some chocolate paste cooked by Lou from the cooking ingredients we have left in the station. She asked our onboard AI (AMAIA) for the recipe, and it turned quite well.
The planning of the day was again lighter than our first week, with a load that we can sustain for the rest of the mission, while our experiments are set up and running without too much work. In the morning we conducted another exploration EVA, dedicated to taking lots of pictures and videos, with the help of our drone.
This afternoon we kept on working on our experiments, and got the time to troubleshoot some of the station’s issues, with some success.
We got a crucial little resupply from mission support which should suffice until our full resupply at the end of the week, thank you !

Look Ahead Plan:
We will keep on gathering scientific data from our experiment, and fixing some of the issues we encountered in the station during the last few days. The next EVAs will be dedicated to the Photogrammetry experiment and keeping on maintaining our atmospheric experiments outside on the field.
Two more sols until the second rest day and the half of the mission !

Anomalies in work:
– Issues with EVA radios headsets (not yet troubleshot, but healthy radios sets have been identified)
– Issue with the Musk Observatory Dome: solving in progress with Peter
– Battery of backpack #4 replaced.

Weather: Clear

Crew Physical Status: Physically fit and well, rested

EVA:
– EVA #09 Conducted with success
– EVA #10 to be planned, for maintenance of the atmospheric experiments and Photogrammetry

Reports to be filed:
– EVA #09 Report
– Journalist Report
– GreenHab report
– Operations report
– Astronomy report

Support Requested: None

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GreenHab Report – February 25th

Report title: GreenHab Report
Crew #: 330
Position: Greenhab officer
Report prepared by: Félix Marguet
Date: 25-02-2026
Sol: 10

Environmental control (fan & heater): Yes
Average temperatures (last 24h): 79.9°F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 108.8°F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 69.8°F
Average humidity (last 24h): 26%
Maximum humidity (last 24h): 35%
Minimum humidity (last 24h): 13.4%

Hours of supplemental light: 5h30
Daily water usage for crops: 2.5gal
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gal
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 141 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4:30PM
Changes to crops: I sew radishes seeds in the big blue box, just next to the tomatoes.
Narrative: N/A
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) none
Support/supplies needed : none

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GreenHab Report – February 27th

GreenHab Report
Crew #: 330
Position: Greenhab officer
Report prepared by: Félix Marguet
Date: 27-02-2026
Sol: 12

Environmental control (fan & heater): Yes
Average temperatures (last 24h): 82°F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 110.2°F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 70.4°F
Average humidity (last 24h): 20.22%
Maximum humidity (last 24h): 27.85%
Minimum humidity (last 24h): 8.8%

Hours of supplemental light: 5h30
Daily water usage for crops: 2gal
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gal
Water in the Tank (160 gal useful capacity): 138 gallons remaining
Time(s) of watering for crops: 5PM
Changes to crops:None
Narrative: N/A
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) none
Support/supplies needed : I can’t download the data from humidity and temperature anymore : Safari is returning "WebKitBlobResource error 1."

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Operations Report – February 27th

Report title: Operations Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Crew Engineer

Report prepared by: Lou Goiffon

Date: 27-02-2026

Sol: 12

Non-nominal systems: The light for the toilets keeps switching from Empty to 1/3 even after 2 weeks of use and we can start to smell something.

Notes on non-nominal systems: N/A

ROVERS

Spirit rover used: No

Hours:

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging: YES

Opportunity rover used : Yes

Hours (Before EVA): 257.4

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 58%

Currently charging: YES

Curiosity rover used: Yes

Hours (Before EVA): 348.3

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 58%

Currently charging: YES

Perseverance rover used: No

Hours (Before EVA):

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging:

General notes on rovers:

Summary of Hab operations:

Water Use (see notes): 13.43 gal/d

Main tank level (remaining gallons, see notes): 115 gallons

Main water tank pipe heater (ON or OFF): ON

Main water tank heater (ON or OFF): ON

Toilet tank emptied (NO or YES): NO

Summary of internet: downlink 285.16 Mbits/s, uplink 38.18 Mbits/s, ping 32 ms

Summary of suits and radios:

– N°4 : Beginning charge 100%, ending charge 93%

– N°1 : Beginning charge 100%, ending charge 92%

– N°5 : Beginning charge 100%, ending charge 0%

All the GPS beacons worked very well

I changed the battery of the backpack 5 as it was dead and the new one is working well

Summary of GreenHab operations: (use information from the GreenHab report)

Water use: 2.5 gallons

Heater (ON or OFF): ON

Supplemental light (hours of operation): 6pm – 11:30pm

Harvest (name, weight in grams): 0

Summary of ScienceDome operations: Human factors experiments conducted

Dual split (Heat or AC, On or Off or Automatic): ON

Summary of RAM operations: N/A

Summary of any observatory issues: N/A

Summary of health and safety issues: None

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: N/A

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Sol Summary – February 27th

Report title: Sol Summary Report

Crew #: 330

Position: Crew Commander

Report prepared by: Gaspard THIEULIN

Date: 27/02/2026

Sol: 12

Summary Title: Creating memories

Mission Status: Going great, rest day tomorrow

Sol Activity Summary:
Concluding a successful week, today went great and we conducted all our experiments without any issue. As mentioned in the previous report, we will publish a video during our mission, to showcase everything we have been doing in the first half of the mission. Today we filmed a lot of scenes to illustrate our mission as best as possible, and we should have enough material to keep assembling the video. Tonight everyone feels relaxed, as we are planning an evening of fun activities before our second rest day.
Some of the crew is also working hard on writing abstracts and articles for upcoming scientific congresses, namely SSEA and IAC, as the submission deadlines are tomorrow.

Look Ahead Plan:
Rest day tomorrow, and then the start of the second half of our mission ! We will publish our mid-mission scientific summary on Sol 13.

Anomalies in work:
– Issue with the Musk Observatory Dome (solving in progress with Peter, observations are possible).

Weather: Sunny

Crew Physical Status: Physically fit and well

EVA:
– EVA 11 Conducted with success

Reports to be filed:
– EVA 11 Report
– Journalist Report
– Greenhab report
– Operations report
– Astronomy report

Support Requested: Resupply for the next two weeks, please find the inventory attached.