Morocco MARS2013

//**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.**//

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This field mission was

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* an opportunity to study equipment behaviour involving the simultaneous usage of various instruments with the option of a human-in-the-loop,

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* a platform for testing life-detection techniques, performing terrain tests for rovers and study concepts of enhancing the situational awareness of remote support teams.

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* studying the northern Sahara as a model region for Martian deserts and extreme life,

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* serving as an outreach platform to enhance the visibility of planetary sciences

List of Experiments:

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|[[AMFS-MEDINC>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/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

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|[[AMFS-SEG>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/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

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|[[ANTIPODES>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/antipodesmars]]|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

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|[[Aouda MAT>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/aoudamat]]|Synopsis: Medical data Acquisition under various physical workload conditions & biomedical data Telemetry (multi-mission project)|Medical University Innsbruck|Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Luger

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|[[AOUDA.S>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/aoudas]]|||

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|[[AOUDA.X>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/aoudax2]]|"Aouda” is able to the mimic border conditions a real Mars spacesuit would provide during a surface EVA|Austrian Space Forum, AT - Technikerstr. 25/8, 6020 Innsbruck Austria|Dr. Gernot Groemer

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|[[CLIFFBOT CRV>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/cliffbot2013]]|Cliffbot rover vehicle - terrain trafficability|Association Planète Mars, FR|Dr. Alain Souchier

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|[[DELTA>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/DELTA]]|Human factors - work economics, time delay A.X vs unsuited|Austrian Space Forum, AT|Alexander Soucek, MLaw, MSS

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|[[Deployable Shelter>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/deployableshelter]]|Deployable Emergency Shelter suitcase for astronauts|Vienna University of Technology, AT|Dr.-Ing. Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger

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|[[ERAS C3>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/erasc3simu2013]]|Command & Control software project for data processing in the field|Mars Society Italy, IT|Franco Carbonari

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|[[Geosciences>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/geoscience]]|Geoscience remote science support experiments; includes the management of all geophysical and astrobiological research activities|University of Budapest & University Innsbruck|Dr. Michael Rampey

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|[[Hunveyor-4>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/hunveyor4]]|Surveyor-class robotic lander with remote access|Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, HU|Dr. Gyorgy Hudoba

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|[[LTMS-MOROCCO>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/ltms]]|Long term medical monitoring system, biomedical chest vest|CSEM, CH|Dr. Marc Correvon

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|[[Magma-White Rover>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/magmawhite]]|Pathfinder-class rover system, mobility & human-robotic interaction|ABM Space Education & Mars Society Poland, PL|Mateusz Józefowicz

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|[[MAT-EP>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/matep]]|Routine medical survey during OEWF field campaigns; includes a field incident reporting system|Medical University Innsbruck|Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Luger

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|[[MEDIAN>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/MEDIAN]]|Methane Detection by In-Situ Analysis with Nano-Landers|University College London, UK|Jane MacArthur, BSc

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|[[microEVA>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/microEVA]]|Luminescence detection of viable bacterial spores and terbium microspheres|NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology|Dr. Adrian Ponce

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|[[OPS-Box-White>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/opsbox]]|OPS-Box-White|Austrian Space Forum, AT - Technikerstr. 25/8, 6020 Innsbruck Austria|Dr. Gernot Groemer

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|[[Peniculus>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/peniculus]]|Peniculus|Austrian Space Forum, AT - Technikerstr. 25/8, 6020 Innsbruck Austria|Dr. Gernot Groemer

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|[[Puli-Rover>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/index.php/mars2013/Puli-Rover]]|Mobility tests for the Hungarian GLXP rover|GLXP Space Technologies, HU|Dr. Tibor Pacher

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