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Log Book for Feb 19, 2002

    Message Files and Reports Recieved:

  1. Check-in — Tony Muscatello
  2. MDRS Log Book — Tony Muscatello
  3. Biology report — Troy Wegman
  4. Engineering report — Steve McDaniel, Andy deWet


    Data Files Received:


Tubes of samples collected and processed for OPH (organophosphorus hydrolase) activity.


Steve McDaniel holding two controls and two samples.


Results with: control with OPH but no paraoxon (colorless), control with OPH and paraoxon (yellow = detoxified), sample I of a desert extremophile that did not detoxify the paraoxon (colorless) and sample II that did detoxify the substrate (yellow) after an extended incubation period.


Biochemical reaction along with the set of controls and samples.


View of the Hab from the top of the small ridge just adjacent to the Hab. Note the photographer from the Denver Post, along with Heather Chluda (Suit #2) and Tony Muscatello (Suit #4).


Andy De Wet at the top of Hab Ridge.


Heather Chluda at the top of Hab Ridge, with Skyline Rim and Factory Butte in the background.


Microscope image of sample collected at Waypoint 12-- Possible bacteria with 50 micron green bead.


Waypoint 74 #5 sample: Orange tinted gypsum crystal.


Waypoint 74 #5: Green microorganisms on a gypsum rock crystal (400X magnification).