Crew emerge from year living in simulated Mars base | BBC News



Four volunteers have emerged from a small compound at a Nasa base in Texas.

They spent more than a year living in conditions designed to simulate those on Mars.

The space the volunteers have lived in for the past 378 days is 3D printed.

Nathan Jones, Anca Selariu, Kelly Haston and Ross Brockwell entered the 1,700-square-foot enclosure back on June 25, 2023.

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28 thoughts on “Crew emerge from year living in simulated Mars base | BBC News”

  1. They could only be in high spirit because they're still on earth and know they can walk out and be next to family in no time. But when u r really on Mars, it's not like you could just get a plane ticket and fly back. That scenario is much worse.

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  2. A Martian solar year is equal to 1.88 Earth years (687 Earth days) so your assertion "They spent more than a year living in conditions designed to simulate those on Mars." is simply wrong. They would have had to have done it longer.

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  3. Just like being on Mars except without the lower gravity, the lower global temperatures, the longer seasons, the increased deadly radiation and, of course, the lower PSI. Other than those critical life threatening features it was just like being on the fourth planet.

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  4. Did they bombard them with deadly radiation? Because the main problem is probably no magnetosphere. No answers there for more than 30 people for a century or two. And we don't have a century. Let's sort not destroying this planet first. And maybe a couple of
    moon bases for practice.

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