SOL 22 : Hab Ridge
This morning, we left on an exploration EVA with Gaspard and Félix toward Hab Ridge. For the first time, we did not take the rovers to get there and we had to hike to get to the site.
All day, Lou and Julien assembled the rover of the SupaeroMoon experiment. The first weeks, Lou used the 3D printer loaned by the CNES to build the different parts of the rover. The objective is to finish the assembly tomorrow to be able to do an EVA to test it. It has been two years that we have been collaborating with the SupaeroMoon club of the AE ISAE-SUPAERO. The members of the club created a rover entirely 3D-printable and we are testing the feasibility of carrying out the assembly in the conditions of a Martian analogue mission.
At the beginning of the afternoon, Adèle organized an HSO session to present to us the concept of non-violent communication. It relies on the OSBD method (observation, sentiment, need, and demand) and allows for the improvement of social interactions by calling upon the empathy of everyone.
At the end of the afternoon, Julien answered questions from the Saint-Exupéry high school of Blagnac. We continue to do scientific mediation actions even during our mission and we proposed to certain classes to participate.
Félix and Célia prepared the stratigraphy EVA of tomorrow morning. There is a strong interest to analyze the geological composition of Mars because the absence of plate tectonics froze the past of the planet in its rocks. It is a way to better know the state of the solar system at the time of the appearance of life on Earth. We are therefore doing a bit of geology during our mission. Researchers from the IRAP gave us lessons to be able to realize the profile of an outcrop followed by a graphic log. From that, one can draw deductions about the geological history of the outcrop.
All afternoon, we continued to film for the documentary that we are preparing. There remain only four days to our mission and the next days are going to be intense to manage to conclude our last objectives!
