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  • ...ace materials. Phobos' density is too low to be pure rock, however, and it is known to have significant porosity. These results led to the suggestion tha Phobos is highly nonspherical, with dimensions of 27 × 21.6 × 18.8 km. Because of i
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  • ...t. Because it produces a large amount of tasty fruit in a small garden, it is a favourite of urban gardeners and potentially of spacefarers. ...vegetative reproduction through the stolons. Note that if the stolons are not cut off, fruit production will be reduced.<ref name="Godbold-Simpson" />
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  • [[Rovers|Rovers,]] more or less by definition, do not require roads. By the same measure, as soon as roads become available, the ...quipment, combined with crushers and graders should be capable of building good quality gravel roads quickly and cheaply. Martian regolith should be compa
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  • Mission Status: Nominal, the crew is back on Earth and met crew 203! ...had a short excursion with the Program Director and after dinner crew 203 is shadowing crew 202 for report training.
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  • ...he mission. The crew was also involved in various outreach projects, which is an important objective of MDRS. ...RS. Due to snow in the first days and mud in the last days, the crew could not reach the end of Cactus Rd in the East side, and Skyline Rim in the West si
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  • ...intense research, team building and simulation training on Mars. Our team is composed of seven highly motivated scientists, engineers from the French ae To share with the public how research is conducted in an analog situation
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  • HABCOM… HABCOM… This is Wataru Okamoto speaking, Can you imagine when we are living in the place where we can not run from the radiation? Or did you ever feel that your body influenced by s
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  • ...or, Martian time moves different than Earth time, and this statement could not be more true. Our time here feels much longer than the mere 14 days, and ou ...things I would take away from this experience. As Crew Journalist, I could not be more fortunate to have the role of listening to everyone’s incredible
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  • Mission Status: The mission is complete and the floors are mopped. There is a mixture of anxiety to get work completed, excitement to return home to lo
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  • ...phere''' of [[Mars]] is not breathable. The pressure is too low, and there is too little [[oxygen]]. And yet, it gives Mars something that makes it the m The total mass of the Martian atmosphere is 2.5x10^16 kg
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  • ...e feeling. Waking up from cryo and seeing the surface of another planet is not something you get used to. We woke up slowly. All around the same time, but one by one. Not on much of a schedule yet. We’ll put that together after breakfast. Our e
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  • Aquaponics: Not in use. ...at I have done. An abundance of thriving plants were left to me and I have not only kept them alive, but brought some to harvest and left the future crews
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  • </gallery>The most famous feature of this area is the [[Hellas Basin|Hellas]] basin, a impact crater 2300 km in diameter. ...ars</ref> Many places in the Hellas quadrangle show signs that the ground is full of ice, especially with glacier-like flow features.
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  • ...y Martian volcano. Pavonis Mons can serve as a marker for location, as it is very prominent and sits almost directly on the equator. Find Pavonis and y The name Tharsis is the Greco-Latin of the biblical Tarshish, the land at the western extremity
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  • ...pe unique to Mars, called Fretted terrain. The largest crater in the area is Lyot Crater, which contains channels probably carved by liquid water.<ref>C ...5 mi) and 1500 km wide (930 mi) respectively. The north-to-south distance is about 2050 km (1,270 mi) (a bit less than the length of Greenland).<ref>Dis
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  • Article written by Jim Secosky. Jim is a retired science teacher who has used the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars ...cecraft have provided a great deal of evidence pointing to where water ice is located. Decades ago, theoretical studies showed that ice could exist unde
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  • a delicious spaghetti dinner cooked by Andy. Excitement is high as all look ...short foot excursion by some curious EVA members revealed its presence; it is doubtful it would have been discovered by a rover or from the vantage point
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  • We predict that the production of characteristic thin surface rinds is produced by the action of weathering, diurnal and seasonal thermal oscillat My science agenda for MDRS is to try to identify and characterize surface processes that have microbial s
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  • ...he evening before and full of excitement for the day's activities. The day is brilliant with achingly long clear horizons and a fresh northerly breeze. '''0810''' Arrival at MDRS. The crew that greets us is clean, cheerful, and eager to relay the tricks. Judith Lapierre has organiz
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  • ...e more than a similar passion for space exploration but also a vision that is human and scientific of space exploration and settlement. There is Shannon Ruppert, our chief biology, Andrew Hoppin, our chief geologist, rem
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