Morocco MARS2013
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Cliffbot in operation
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum – in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh - conducted an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a 10-person field crew performed experiments preparing for future human Mars missions in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
This field mission was
- an opportunity to study equipment behaviour involving the simultaneous usage of various instruments with the option of a human-in-the-loop,
- a platform for testing life-detection techniques, performing terrain tests for rovers and study concepts of enhancing the situational awareness of remote support teams.
- studying the northern Sahara as a model region for Martian deserts and extreme life,
- serving as an outreach platform to enhance the visibility of planetary sciences
- an opportunity to enhance different mission and activity planning strategies (published papers).
The Mars 2013 final report is available .
Experiments:
| name | description | organisation | pi |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMFS-MEDINC | Synopsis: MEDical emergency database with recording of INCidents and near-incidents in all participants during Analog Mars Field simulations (multi-mission project) | Medical University Innsbruck | Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Luger |
| AMFS-SEG | Synopsis: Stress, emotion and groupdynamics of the crew in the field and the members of the MSC during Analog Mars Field simulations. (multi-mission project) | Medical University Innsbruck | Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Luger |
| ANTIPODES | Antipodes is an operations experiment where a loss of communication (e.g. satellite is out-of-range) to Earth is simulated. A parallel landing party on the other side of Mars is requested to take over the coordination of an ongoing Extra-Vehicular Activity via their habitat’s comms system and relay it to the experiment site via a satellite in Martian orbit until Earth is able to reestablish contact again. | Kiwispace, New Zealand | Haritina Mogosanu / Gernot Groemer / Diego Urbina |
| Aouda MAT | Synopsis: Medical data Acquisition under various physical workload conditions & biomedical data Telemetry (multi-mission project) | Medical University Innsbruck | Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Luger |
| AOUDA.S | "Aouda” is able to the mimic border conditions a real Mars spacesuit would provide during a surface EVA | Austrian Space Forum, Sillufer 3a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria | Dr. Gernot Groemer |
| CLIFFBOT CRV | Cliffbot rover vehicle - terrain trafficability | Association Planète Mars, FR | Dr. Alain Souchier |
| DELTA | Human factors - work economics, time delay A.X vs unsuited | Austrian Space Forum, AT | Alexander Soucek, MLaw, MSS |
| Deployable Shelter | Deployable Emergency Shelter suitcase for astronauts | Vienna University of Technology, AT | Dr.-Ing. Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger |
| ERAS C3 | Command & Control software project for data processing in the field | Mars Society Italy, IT | Franco Carbonari |
| Geosciences | Geoscience remote science support experiments; includes the management of all geophysical and astrobiological research activities | University of Budapest & University Innsbruck | Dr. Michael Rampey |
| Hunveyor-4 | Surveyor-class robotic lander with remote access | Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, HU | Dr. Gyorgy Hudoba |
| LTMS-MOROCCO | Long term medical monitoring system, biomedical chest vest | CSEM, CH | Dr. Marc Correvon |
| Magma-White Rover | Pathfinder-class rover system, mobility & human-robotic interaction | ABM Space Education & Mars Society Poland, PL | Mateusz Józefowicz |
| MAT-EP | Routine medical survey during OEWF field campaigns; includes a field incident reporting system | Medical University Innsbruck | Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Luger |
| MEDIAN | Methane Detection by In-Situ Analysis with Nano-Landers | University College London, UK | Jane MacArthur, BSc |
| microEVA | Luminescence detection of viable bacterial spores and terbium microspheres | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | Dr. Adrian Ponce |
| OPS-Box-White | OPS-Box-White | Austrian Space Forum, Sillufer 3a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria | Dr. Gernot Groemer |
| Peniculus | Peniculus | Austrian Space Forum, Sillufer 3a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria | Dr. Gernot Groemer |
| Puli-Rover | Mobility tests for the Hungarian GLXP rover | GLXP Space Technologies, HU | Dr. Tibor Pacher |
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