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Crew 118 Engineer, Science Team
Don Stewart
Age: 54
Living in: Melbourne, Australia
Special interest/s while on the mission:
Engineering suport, Weather Observer |
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defordon@gmail.com |
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Don will install a temporary weather station to collect data on local weather conditions at MDRS
during Mission 118. Remote weather sensors will transmit data on temperature, humidity, wind
direction and other weather every three hours to a base station in the Habitat. As well as providing
a "snapshot" of weather experienced during the mission, these data might be useful to others
planning future Missions.
Don will also test the effectiveness of a low-tech water collection device similar to those used to
harvest soil-bound water in desert survival situations. Although this project will not be run in a fully
controlled Mars analogue environment, it might provide pointers to the application of similar lowtech devices in emergency survival situations or to larger scale low tech water harvesting in warmer
parts of Mars |