Skyline Rim

Summary

Timing

Time:	2:39:37
Moving Time:	1:50:43
Elapsed Time:	2:39:37

Avg Pace:	29:48 min/mi
Avg Moving Pace:	20:40 min/mi
Best Pace:	:35 min/mi

Elevation

Elevation Gain:	518 ft
Elevation Loss:	515 ft
MinElevation:	4,501 ft
MaxElevation:	4,767 ft

Karon, David and Leandro's Last EVA

The three of us going out for our last EVA

A walk in the park

Martian Landscape

Aster and the Rocks

Leandro in the EVA room

Dolomite to Aragonite Crystallization Process

Epic Mars Rover

Summary

Timing

Time:	1:56:18
Moving Time:	56:06
Elapsed Time:	1:56:18

Avg Speed:	4.6 mph
Avg Moving Speed:	9.6 mph
Max Speed:	1.5 mph

Elevation

Elevation Gain:	341 ft
Elevation Loss:	400 ft
MinElevation:	4,399 ft
MaxElevation:	4,640 ft

Mars Rover Close Up

 

The Hand of God

Astronaut's Shadow

 

On the top of North Pinto Hills

Tower

Bone

Bones…

On Top of North Pinto Hills

Stone Mushrooms

Epic Victoria

Mountain View

Solar Tube Experiment

Martian Sand Worm

Strata

Enchanted Forest

 

Written by: Aster Stein.

The am-EVA team made an interesting discovery today. After a short
drive, an innocent hike to a high peak in the North Pinto Hills. It
went very well, but near the top of the hill they found a bone
sticking out from the ground. It must have been there for a while
since the bone was pretty clean. It looked like a femur from a medium
sized mammal.

Nicky and Aster started recording a series of fun physics experiments
in front of the hab. It is their sincere hope that the future first
man on Mars was inspired by our adventures and demonstrations. One of
them involved a 60 foot long black ‘solar tube’, a huge plastic bag
that will start lifting up in the air when the sun heats it enough.

Out pm-EVA crew visited a little gem, almost in our backyard, Candor
Chasma. It’s a short ATV ride away, followed by an easy hike. This
could surely be a target for the very last EVA’s of crew 109′s
rotation so that everyone has seen it.

In keeping up with hab tradition, Aster made door labels for all the
crew members to hang on their bedroom doors. Hanging the labels was a
special moment, because crew 109 is almost a part of history now.

Crew 110 should verify this, but If one would write down the first
letter of each previous crew’s labels from the green door on a sheet
of paper, we arranged them so that it would look like…

Striking layered walls
Candor Chasma tells tales of
Jurassic splendor

Today,  Aster, Victoria and I traversed Mars Copernicus Highway. Our entire crew was also quite busy with experiments in the HAB ranging from water testing and time-lapse photography to soil cultures.

Marching towards the soil core sample site

Summary

Details

Timing

Time:	2:16:51
Moving Time:	1:39:48
Elapsed Time:	2:16:51

Avg Speed:	8.1 mph
Avg Moving Speed:	11.0 mph
Max Speed:	37.1 mph

Elevation

Elevation Gain:	688 ft
Elevation Loss:	687 ft
MinElevation:	4,453 ft
MaxElevation:	4,692 ft

Mountains

 

Water Oxygen and Conductivity Testing

Soil Cultures

Sunrise Interval Shooting

Basil Space Seeds Sprouts

Growing Argonite Crystals

Skyline Rim Close Up

Skyline Rim

Two Towers