MDRSCrew221Earth2Mars

The Mars Desert Research Station Crew 221 ( Feb 1 to 16 2020) is composed of 7 motivated young professionals and students from 6 different countries.

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The spell-binding Martian landscape 😮🤩 @ MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station https://t.co/YYpUIFiHw8

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Last few moments on Mars before we get back home, to Earth!🚀🌌 @ MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station https://t.co/xlEZl9IeDZ

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Mars Sol 13: Touch down Earth awaits

Update since last Sol Summary: The team prepared the Mission summary of Crew 221 Earth2Mars, reporting about the mission and what we achieved from our original plan. Besides a… https://t.co/JbAgHmexJm

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A sneak peek into the night sky on Mars!😮🔭🌌
#explorers #martians #earth2mars @ MDRS - Mars Desert Research Station https://t.co/3tCvx8lgQx

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Mars Sol 12: Preparation to fly to Earth

Sol Activity Summary:
Today is Valentine’s day on Earth and also the last day for us on Mars. Yesterday the team played “King Mao” , a card game from Crew GreenHab Officer… https://t.co/XSIn96j2c9

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Mars Sol 12: Preparation to fly to Earth

Sol Activity Summary:
Today is Valentine’s day on Earth and also the last day for us on Mars. Yesterday the team played “King Mao” , a card game from Crew GreenHab Officer… https://t.co/OTKB1GRuE4

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Mars Sol 11: Real Mars Experience

Sol Activity Summary:
Today the crew woke up and had pancakes prepared by the crew commander and with the olive oil we got from the last supply mission from Earth. Finally they do… https://t.co/Abrl1NmPoD

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Mars Sol 10: Robot vs Human

Update since last Sol summary: The crew finally managed to have one games night which made everyone happy. Still in the wish list - movie night and dance night.

Today we reconvened for… https://t.co/OWanZzuhGf

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Sol 9: Corn on Mars (with a little bit of help)

This morning, we tested radio operations outside the hab. Crew Engineer Louis had already successfully built an radio and got it working inside the hab over the last… https://t.co/8JIcpuypVe

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Mars Sol 8:

This morning, we started a new Science project. Crew GHO, J Todd, is going to observe the efficiency of EVA teams and assess it according to parameters in the literature. One set of EVAs done today… https://t.co/jMIQbSDsjq

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Mars Sol 7: A little bit of rest

Yesterday evening, we had another amazing cultural night. We learned so much about Costa Rica and found it is such an impressive country. It voluntarily gave up its army in 1948, it… https://t.co/tQtO5Y2cRk

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Mars Sol:6
Task Well done!

Update since last Sol Summary: Crew 221 played the rover game last night from the Planetary Volatiles Lab at York University, from Crew Journalist H. Kalucha before heading to an early… https://t.co/KeFyecHNNK

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Mars Sol:5
It’s all about the Science

Crew 221 had another cultural night with Jessica Todd the Greenhab Officer, introducing the crew to Australian history, slang, the most dangerous and cutest animals in… https://t.co/CwcpSpet7b

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Mars Sol 4:
Crew 221 had great Mexican tacos and prepared a new batch of kombucha that they inherited from crew 220. It will be ready by the 11th of February! No big evening activities were planned as the crew… https://t.co/vZM1lrfic3

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Mars Sol 3: Exploring the Moons!

Today, we made good progress on our microbiology and black corn experiments. Early morning, Commander Grulich started the process of testing bacteria growth on Mars by taking swabs… https://t.co/MpIgmoZgRr

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Mars Sol 2:
Crew 221 aoke up to a beautiful day today. The weather was windless and mostly sunny, perfect condition to set up our weather station on Mars. Today we did some hard core science! The whole team worked… https://t.co/VQ1EaDWKBs

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Mars Sol 1:3...2…1…Touch down

Touch down it is as if we could hear the sound of the engines still rumbling into the sky and now, we are all the way on the surface of Mars! Our journey brought us from 5 different… https://t.co/N6BQBCAT3A

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Mars Sol 0: Training and preparation time
@MDRSCrew221 arrived at the @MDRSupdates station and met the members of MDRS-MAU crew 220. The handover of the station was done from Crew 220 to Crew 221.
Tomorrow we will wake up on Mars we are looking forward to our launch!🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

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On our way to mdrs_utah for 2 weeks of analogue mission where we will be doing a lot of experiments, exploration and adventures! Stay updated by following our social media handles 🚀🌌👩‍🚀👨‍🚀
#martians #mdrs #science… https://t.co/UA0ifi4c5O

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Today and always, #NASARemembers and honors the 17 astronauts – Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crew members – that lost their lives while exploring and researching for the benefit of people around the world.