0329-CommandersReport

Greetings Mission Support,

Commander Report Crew 166:

Mathieu Roiseux

Sol 9

Earth date: 29/03/16

Today was our grandfather day. We didn’t do tiring things. We woke up at

08:00 am. Then Nadine (who feels better) and I made pancakes for all the

team. At 10:00 am, we went on EVA. It was a small one as the main goal

was to stay around the base and take altitude measurements for the map.

Gregory and I left Nadine and Arthur to go some meters farther to retrieve

two emitters that Gregory placed previously. We circled around the HAB

and climbed a lot of small hills but nothing difficult. As Arthur made

a lot of distance to go back at the same place, we waited for him

sometimes on a stone. Then I replaced Arthur to continue measuring the

altitude. The job was completed quickly and we went back in the HAB around

11:30.

This afternoon, nothing special happened. Arthur showed us the result

of the travels we made in the morning. Bertrand worked on his antenna as

usual and tomorrow we will test the change he made.

The weather is colder than usual and they are many clouds. It doesn’t

look like good news for the observation in the observatory. However the

wind has slowed and the HAB is no longer shaken in every direction.

Today we realized that there remains only three days of SIM. It seems too

few for us as we all enjoyed the time we already have spent on Mars.

From Crew 166; MDRS Martian Outpost

Crew Commander

Mathieu

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