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Images shot on Dec 18th, 2007.
Shot with a Nikon D40
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If you remember the last journalistic report, I said at the end that we were about to choose a movie and that I will tell you if we chose the one with the blond girl or the one with the ugly Martians. Well, even if some of us voted for the blond girl (I am not going to say who...), we decided to watch a sci-fi series called Firefly. It was actually pretty good and given that the clouds will prevent us from looking at the stars, we may watch another episode tonight.
This morning, Catherine and Jon went on EVA to "Hab Ridge". The scientific goal of the EVA was to collect rock samples and Halophiles. Here at the Hab, Ben, Chris and I planted some vegetables in the GreenHab. Instead of our usual dirty work with the grey water, planting carrots, lettuce, onions, radishes and herbs has even made Catherine jealous. For the first time of the mission, she wanted to steal our job! I wish I could stay a little bit longer at MDRS to see the seeds growing.
In the afternoon, we switched places: Cath, Jon and Ben stayed at the Hab working on some engineering tasks and reports while Chris and I went on EVA with the new ATVs. It was a lot of fun to use them. To drive far away from the Hab and to feel lost in the middle of Utah desert highly improved the realism of the simulation. The purpose of this EVA was to have more data points for another study. The goal of this "Sampling and Travelling Safely on Inclined Slopes Study" is to determine, based on several criterias such as ground characteristics and slope inclination whether travelling on a certain slope is safe or not. Basically, we spent our afternoon to hike up and down the hills! I am glad to have had the opportunity to do this EVA. Each time I go out and see such beautiful landscapes, I feel sad to have to stay inside the Hab. But dealing with this kind of sentiment is also part of the mission.
Once everybody was back in the Hab, we had an early Mexican diner. Then Jon made a presentation about a couple of missions he worked on: Stardust, Genesis, and the recent Mars Orbiter and Rover missions. That was pretty cool, but I guess the main goal of this presentation was to show Catherine that engineers can also do some cool things instead of always working on gray water systems. It has worked!
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