EVA CMDR: Dave Scott, Crew geologist
EVA CREW: Simone Kosul, Joan Roch, Dave Scott
HABCOMM: Mark Moran

Today's geology/biology goals were to look for halophile organisms and to find some recent dust deposits. As for the latter goal, no samples were collected since we ran out of time and the halophile environment search took priority. We did manage to pick up some salt samples at various locations west of the Hab and along Skyline Rim. We were hoping to find salt deposits in river ways and washes, but could only find small salt patches in random open places. The first few samples were within a couple hundred meters of an intermittent stream and the others were close to Skyline Rim, just at the bottom of the slope in the soft weathered material eroded off the cliff face. One of the Skyline Rim samples was taken near a crew 5 salt sample (thanks for the info by the way - you know who you are). Hopefully the samples contain the halophile organisms Elia and Simone are looking for.

10:36 MDT Entered Airlock
11:06 MDT Egress from Airlock
11:09 MDT Petra's Small Dosimeter Exposed
11:10 Washed pumps
11:11 MDT Walking to Dosimeter
11:18 Petra's Dosimeter Restored
11:21 Greenhab readings as follows:

Left 86 F, Right 64 F
Min 88 F, 12% (Radio shack)
Max 100 F, 21%
Current 97 F, 13% current hygro.
Current on mercury 88 F (31 C)

11:29 Mounted ATV's
11:30 Left on ATV's
11:43 Impasse reported at 0518319 Easting / 4251489 Northing GPS coordinate
11:50 Proceeded on ATV 200 m SE then turned west
11:58 Loss of contact with EVA Team (repeater silent for several consecutive attempts)
12:10 Transmissions re-established
12:12 2nd GPS coordinate mentioned in transmission but no report received by HabComm
12:19 Passing halite . Still no GPS coordinate
12:32 GPS coordinate 0515961 Easting / 4247899 Northing
12:42 Sample #6 at 0515918 Easting / 4248580 Northing
12:44 ATV's heading North
12:53 For Salt Sample #2 at 516585 Easting / 4251004 Northing
13:12 Rear airlock door flew open from high winds, misty rain or rain-like precipitation noted, Petra's electronics retrieved out-of-sim
13:51 EVA Ingress into Airlock
13:57 End of EVA