LIVING ON MARS: Four NASA volunteers entered a simulated Mars habitat on Sunday, where they will remain for 378 days while facing a range of challenges designed to anticipate a real-life human mission to the red planet. The participants — research scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones and US Navy microbiologist Anca Selariu — were selected from a pool of applicants to be part of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, in its first yearlong mission. None of them are trained astronauts. During their time inside of the 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat, the crew is set to carry out an array of “mission activities,” including simulated spacewalks, robotic operations, growing of crops, habitat maintenance, personal hygiene At 1,700 square feet, the habitat is smaller than the average US single-family house. It includes a kitchen, private crew quarters and two bathrooms, along with medical, work and recreation areas. face a series of obstacles that likely mirror those of a true Mars mission, as researchers simulate conditions like resource limitations, equipment failure, communication delays and environmental stressors. #CHAPEA #nasamarsmission #MarsDuneAlpha
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NASA getting serious about Mars. Eyes firmly fixed on Mars.
Inside the Mars Simulation: One Year, 4 Volunteers, and an Unforgettable Experience! NASA wants to be the first on Mars as well.
I would love to go into that habitat. Where do I sign. How do I apply?
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The habitats made by robot are not good enough to shield from radiation including UV and energetic muons the latter being very hard to shield. You can not use the soil to grow food unless it has been decontaminated as the radiation has changed the soil . I dont think Mars is a good candidate to either terraform or colonise . The better idea would be to build a habitat and use asteroids and comets to do it. A better idea I reckon would be to set foot and build a base on an asteroid that is in its own orbit. You could survey it and get your fuel from it the same as Mars and use that as a mother ship . I aint no science expert but its not worth mining an asteroid unless you are using most of it to build in space . Mars will never be a long term colony . It is too small and you have to do a lot more work to get raw materials there. An asteroid though has a bit of everything and its mainly seperate anything on Mars will need complex refining to be able to separate elements and metals from each other .
To be so smart…this is a dumb move for NASA…you can't simulate mars…u can simulate the habitat a little bit…but what they can't simulate is the mental that comes with not returning to earth..this experiment is worthless
Gives biodome vibes
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