Team Leader: Dave
Team: Dave, Joan, Simone
HabCom: Elia

The objective of this EVA is to hunt down Moby Dick: its goal is to reach Factory Butte without climbing over Skyline Rim. I'm positive that this EVA Team will make it. It consists of our best ATV-riders Dave, Joan and Simone and is led by Dave who has proved himself a very good EVA-Teamleader.

This EVA is mainly following the path taken by yesterday's EVA-team: heading north via Lowell Hwy, down towards Muddy Creek, via the Badland Labyrinth to Coal Mine Wash which they will ride through upwards to Skyline Rim Road for going south on it until they reach the flattest region upon Factory Bench which will bring them straight west to Factory Butte - hopefully. An additional option for the way back - again, if time permits - is having a look at the mine at the northern branch of Coal Mine Wash.



1009: EVA Team enters airlock for prebreathe
1039: prebreathe completed / airlock egress
1040: dosimeter exposed
1040: ATVs refuelled
1045: ATVs started
1047: Team reports 'leaving the area of the Hab'
1115: Team transmits 'Do you copy?', no answer.
1152: Team transmits '...Factory Butte... ...on way back...' tried to reestablish communication w/o success
1212: Team transmits '...you sure thats the way we came in?' tried to reestablish communication w/o success
1235: some non-understandable transmissions got in tried to reestablish communication w/o success
1323: communication reestablished request for position not answered
1402: communication reestablished Team transmits 'we are at Candor Chasma now'' request for repeating of transmission was not answered
1411: Team reports 'We can see HabCom now'
1412: Team is entering Hab area
1414: Team is requested to retrieve the liquid halophile samples and the dosimeter. Dave is requested to retrieve the dusttrap
1416: Team requests some Keys which might be for the observatory to test them the keys were brought into the Airlock.
1424: Simone transmits 'liquid samples 13, 14, 15 retrieved'
1431: Simone transmits 'liquid samples 16, 17, 18 retrieved'
1432: Dave requests position of liquid samples west of Hab of Simone
1439: Simone transmits 'liquid samples 7, 8, 9 retrieved'
1440: Simone transmits 'liquid samples 19, 20, 21 retrieved'
1442: Simone transmits 'liquid samples 10, 11, 12 and dosimeter retrieved'
1444: Simone transmits 'Dusttrap 5 to 10 min before approx 1440 retrieved'
1446: Team enters Airlock
1451: Repressurization finished

Post EVA Debrief: The EVA Team made it to Factory Butte in a little bit more than an hour, which is well within the simulation safety constraint. After they found their way out of Coal Mine Wash on the spot yesterday's EVA Team had scouted - another one they had tried was a dead end - they went over the flat of Factory Bench and reached the Road 5 minutes later. A quick drive on the Road led them to a trail up to Factory Butte.

On their - mostly much slower - way back they have been looking for water sampling sites (for Mark's Water Contamination Experiment) and sites that might offer a chance to bring good results for the Methane Detection Drilling Experiment. The Team has also been scouting for other locations with salt abundance for the Halophile Search. First they visited the site of the spire right east of Factory Butte before they found an interesting spot for drilling at the Coal Mine on the roads end.

Right before they returned to the Hab via Lowell Highway they scouted the Candor Chasma area to the east of the Hab. After their return they retrieved the UV-dosimeter, the dust trap and the liquid samples of halophiles. At last the Observatory was checked.

Report on state of the ATVs:

• One has got a slow leak on the front left tire
• All drive belts need a check
• All rear brakes are weak

And one of the backpack boxes has been shattered during a minor ATV incident.