0330-CommandersReport

Greetings Mission Support,

Commander Report Crew 166:

Mathieu Roiseux

Sol 10

Earth date: 30/03/16

Today we woke up and ate our breakfast before going to EVA. One member

of the crew wasn’t feeling good. This person suffered from back pain

and pain in the right leg. I decided that it was better that the

person stay in bed to rest and take some medication. We had

enough to go outside and complete the EVA job that was planned for

this morning.

The EVA in itself was productive. We made some tests with the antenna

and it worked! We took back one emitter that Gregory had placed earlier in

another EVA. We also measured the altitude of some hills near the route

that we initially planned. Going on those hills was helpful for the

antenna experiment. As Bertrand was behind the hill, we showed him the

HAB direction to help the transmission.

It was quite funny to climb those hills even if I felt that my

stomach wasn’t really happy about it. The view at the top of the

elevated area on our travel was really good and we observed things

were we went many times with a different angle. Bertrand’s antenna

finally found a more interesting job when we used it as a

selfie-stick to take a picture.

This afternoon, Nadine finished her book “The Martian”. Julie made a

new table with a light on the bottom and a transparent plastic at the

top. Her small construction allows her to observe her boxes containing

bacteria. Arthur is making the map with all the altitude measurements

that we took all during our SIM.

Around 5:00 pm we had our traditional power shut down but instead of the

usual five minutes, it was a longer one. However it seems that we will

no longer have electricity loss in the future because the problem has

been identified.

When power came back, Bertrand and Gregory checked one last time the

NorCal Rover before sending it out into the dangerous world at the external

part of the HAB. Bertrand drove the rover as Gregory made his routine

check. When Gregory had finished his usual measurements, he made the

turn of the HAB, the MUSK observatory and the GreenHab. He was looking

after the robot which was preceding him. He took command of the

rover for this final lap.

From Crew 166; MDRS Martian Outpost

Crew Commander

Mathieu

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