Today we enjoyed our first perfectly cloudless morning here on analogue Mars.

Woken by the gentle chirps of my alarm clock, we were treated to Lebenese eggs and Canadian Sauages by Anthony, which meant it was my turn to do the dishes, but before all this could come to pass, first we had to go and help Don our local support contact for the Mars Society disengage Big Blue and grounded water trailer. Don is indeed a professional jack of all trades and lived up to Paul's (the refit crew's commander) glowing endorsements to the "T". He had the two cantankerious steel behemoths disengaged by the time we got into our working clothes and were out the door to assist him. He quickly navigated the water trailer into its place and Voila! we had Potable Water once again.

Afterwards while Anthony and Adam retired to the HAB to resume breakfast and report writing while Hugh and Don toured about in his vehicle to scout out the route for access to the new outside vehicles parking area down in Engineering. The purpose of the new parking area implementation, as first discussed with Paul, was to remove all Earth origin artifacts from the vicinity of the HAB so that our photos from now on will only show the Mars Desert Research Station and not all the associated Engineering support equipment that tends to make the place look "un-Martian".

As noted above, breakfast was one of Anthony's usual masterpieces of Lebenese fried eggs and Canadian Sauages, which meant it was my turn to do the dishes. After breakfast Anthony gloved up and inspected the GreenHab while Adam force fed it 30 US gallons of water from our now refilled Internal Water Tank.

Conclusion, GreenHab is pumping water from A to B to C to D but the amount of algae suggests the bacteria are no longer alive and busily digesting the pollutants in our Grey Water (see GreenHab report for details).

With the blessing of a sunny day, which can really lift one's morale and spirts, we decided next to tackle the greatest mystery that has confronted us, confounded us and darn near driven us to distraction. We were determined come high water or scorching heat that we were going to find the HAB's DVD and CD music libraries today.

Anthony did find them in boxes tucked away at the back of what was Felipe's stateroom. We had asked where they were but neither Paul or Artemis could recall. So the first thing Anthony did was to strengthen the screws holding one end of the new DVD-CD's shelf above the south end staterooms. Next he hauled them all out onto the kitchen table and we sorted them alphabetically, categorised them and then placed them on the new shelf. They then read them to me in order and I logged them into OpsMan v8.2 which I had been working on in the meantime. Not happy with the thought having to renumber the OpsMan everytime there was a swack of DVD's or CD's or books donated, I moved the Entertainment Library to the back of the Manual in Appendix 2 and made the Change Log Appendix 3.

Thus, those of you who want to bring a movie or CD of music or book to donate, you can now look at the end of the OpsManual and check to see if it is already at the HAB as this Appendix will contain up todate list of all of the DVD's, music CD's by category (either contemporary or classical-spaceflight themed) or books by either Reference or Fiction.

Anthony then did some more reorganising of the downstairs engineering benches and also worked on the LAN system. Adam started his writeups on the GreenHab and I tackled inserting the engineering changes into the OpsMan.

At 16:30 we all looked at the weather satellites and decided to grab the chance for a quick ATV EVA up to Brahe Highway for Hugh to see some new territory before a change in the weather made it impossible. Hugh appointed Adam EVA Commander, Anthony as navigator and then moved the webcam down to the top of the Prep Room door so that our suiting up would be transmitted live over the net.

We were out the door by 17:00 and shortly there after we on the road north bound (see EVA Eleven report). It was worth the mad dash, done of course in a very controled manner as I was passing over totally new territory to me and the high Martian plains 4 kilometers north of the HAB are just magnificent desolation.

Back in the HAB our ingress and de-suiting at 18:30 was broadcast again via webcam across the internet and shortly there after our viewers world wide were treated to watching Anthony and Adam (greatest chef on analogue Mars and his trainee sous chef) prepare a wonderful meal of meatballs and salad. Hugh was tied to the computer pounding out his reports which included finishing up yesterdays Commander's Report as it was cut off mid-sentence when he was sent to bed last night very exhausted.

After supper this evening, it was back to the reports and e-mail where we waiting for us our first Remote Science Team tasking to go on a Geology reconn EVA tomorrow morning.

As I write this Anthony and Adam are out doing the Engineering rounds and troubleshooting why the GreenHab is NOT sending water over to fill up the toilet's flush tank. Okay, they just go back and solved the toilet water supply problem (details in GreenHAB Report).

So do tune in tomorrow for the continuing adventures of the Pisces One Expedition, here on analogue Mars in southern Utah at the Desert Research Station. Tomorrow is a Science EVA followed by the Commander's 50th birthday party at supper time. Good evening and sleep well to all back on that Pale Blue dot in the sky we call our home, Earth.