Crew Physical Status: Everyone is doing OK

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: Our fourth day at the MDRS, again mostly devoted to public outreach activities. Three more days until the real AustroMars mission will start. Media representatives came along with us on a second dress rehearsal EVA, which was devoted to a Search and Rescue exercise.

Wendy is doing fine, also the internet connection seems to be working better today (maybe because the Wildblue representative will come tomorrow!) We have integrated the WebCam into the AustroMars Aerobot and tested it successfully, albeit we could not fly it because of rather stormy conditions. The AustroMars Rover has finally arrived, and we are awaiting for further procedures to start it up.

EVA: EVA02 took place into the north-easterly vicinity of waypoint WPT 011 of Crew 47 (with the ATVs), into a small canyon. A Search and Rescue dress rehearsal was conducted there.

Plans for Tomorrow: Continue with further tests of the AustroMars aerobot; set-up of the WLAN infrastructure; set-up and start-up of the AustroMars Rover test sequence.

Report Transmission Schedule:

• Today's engineering report will be submitted around 20:00 via the web interface.
• The other reports (CDR, EVA) will be transmitted also around 20:30.

Miscellaneous: We had another two visitors passing by. It seems that we start to become a tourist attraction of some sort!

Support Requested: None

More to follow.

Norbert Frischauf
Commander, MDRS Crew 48 "AustroMars"