The snow from Sol 1 remains, and with temperatures plummeting last night we stay in the safety of the Hab with our EVA plans on hold for the time being. The crew is working very well together, adapting plans and continuing with science projects this morning, adapting as best possible to the weather conditions. We had a delicious lunch of dehydrated rice, potato and pea mix. There are no leftovers and plates barely need cleaning!
In the afternoon, the group considered questions from one of our outreach projects – Can plants survive on Mars? How will we get water? How can we generate electricity? What is the best way to cover large distances and could we ever fly on Mars? What is the best way to produce our oxygen? So many questions to be answered before we can journey to and live on the Red Planet.
We look through the porthole – the cold conditions outside are fairly close to a Martian spring day on the equator, and think of living and working on a world so similar and so different to our own..
