Crew Physical Status: Everyone in perfect shape.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: During the first official night on the Red Planet, everyone recovered from the previous day's early morning landing. Flight Plan Day 2 chased the crew out of beds at 0600. After breakfast and power check, N. Frischauf (CDR) and Christian Hutsteiner (FE) prepared for the first regular EVA, which served as engineering EVA checking the outside of the Hab, the ATVs, the Greenhab (outside), etc., leading to ground operational declaration. No anomalies reported. During this EVA, Frischauf and Hutsteiner also took a camera with them, and the real-time videos received were stunning. This simple technique will be used from now on for all EVAs, serving as Outreach tool for the MCC in Salzburg. After lunch, the next EVA was prepared for taking Geology emergency samples, preparing for an eventual emergency return to Earth. This EVA (crew: HSO G. Groemer and FE Ch. Hutsteiner) suffered from some VOX (radio) problems due to distance. Therefore, HabCom decided to abort EVA. When the EVA crew came in sight and vox of the Hab, however, the EVA was continued in accordance with Mission Control as new EVA #5, in order to allow for finishing the geology experiments and sterile sample collection. Other activities of the day included Rover testing and work, the Myograph experiment, the PsychoMars questionnaires and saliva samples, and more. Again, cooking seemed to be the most challenging activity of the day... preparing proper food seems to be one entire big anomaly for the crew.

EVAs: 2. Find details in EVA reports. EVA #3. Crew: N. Frischauf (CDR, EVA CDR) and Ch. Hutsteiner (FE). HabCom G. Groemer (HSO). Engineering EVA to check out Hab and surrounding, including ATV testing. Everything nominal. EVA started at 0900 and ended at 1130. Good video coverage of the EVA, no anomalies. EVa Area in sight of Hab.

EVA #4/5 (combined): Ch. Hutsteiner (FE, EVA CDR) and G. Groemer (HSO). HabCom A. Soucek (XO). Geological sample EVA with one simulated (airlock) and one real (radio) anomaly, the latter one leading to abortion of EVA 4. Due to re-establishing radio and sight contact with crew, as well as significant remaining nominal EVA time, MCC agreed to re-issue EVA as "EVA 5", thus turning it into a double-EVA. Various samples were taken. Original target before LoC: WPT 334. EVA started at 1515 and ended at 1705.

Plans for Tomorrow: Revised Flight Plan of Day 3 will be received by MCC Salzburg later this evening. Planned activites include BioMars EVA, Switch-x video conference with Autrian Broadcasting Cooperation and the first nighttime EVA for TeleMars.

Report Transmission Schedule:

• Today's engineering report has been transmitted.
• The CDR report will be transmitted at 20:00.

Anomalies: The usual (power)...

Miscellaneous: Simulated airlock valve anomaly (poor crew of EVA 4/5, waiting 20min in airlock), GreenHab weekly check nominal, good sarcasm and even more Sim feeling.

Support Requested: none, except... (power...).

More to follow.

Alexander Soucek
Commander, MDRS Crew 48 "AustroMars," on behalf of CDR