0228-EVAReport

EVA Request:

EVA #7

Crew members: Louis Maller (EVA leader): backpack 2, red Honda

Mohammad Iranmanesh, one-piece backpack, ATV#3

Arthur Lillo, backpack 4, ATV#2

Camille Gontier: backpack 1, ATV#4

Location: South of the the Hab (12S-520235E-4250690N)

Time: departure at 10:00 a.m.

Duration: 2 hours

Purposes:

- scouting south of the Hab

- Project EMUI:

Testing of new features (new note and procedure, with new

pictures inside the new helmets) by PI

- Detection of Mind-Wandering using ECG

- If it is sunny, first outdoors test of the MOMA project

HabCom: Jérémy Rabineau

Timeline:

10:00 exiting main airlock

10:02 opening Engineering Airlock

10:04 static tank mesure

10:05 MOMA experiment set in front of the hab

10:11 ATVs leave south

10:20 loss of radio signal

11:15 brief radio contact

11:30 backpack problems, #1 doesn’t seem to be working and #4 very feeble

11:33 EVE#7 heading home

11:54 back to the Hab

11:58 Empty gas can placed on the trailer

11:59 MOMA placed in the engineering airlock

12:02 Back in the main airlock

Summary:

The crew of 4 left the Hab on the ATVs heading south, looking for an

interesting canyon, and exploring the road, trying to find the forks

on the main road.

We went almost all the way to the main road without seeing the fork,

so we went back until we found it. We stopped at a firs canyon just

along the road, that was quite picturesque. We took a few pictures and

then we headed back north. We found the fork in the road we were

looking for. We followed that road until we arrived at a spot we found

interesting, with a mountain that didn’t seem far away. We left the

ATV there, but the interesting land feature was farther then expected

(20min walk). There wasn’t any canyon as we thought at first, so we

didn’t stay long but we took a few pictures. During the walk from and

to the ATVs we were able to connect briefly with HabCom.

The EVA was shorter than announced because we did the exploration we

wanted to do, and are now more familiar with MDRS environment. We got

better with the ATVs and unfortunately there was a glitch with the

EMUI experiment so I wasn’t able to test them successfully.