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What will look like the house in which NASA will simulate life on Mars

2023-04-13 18:26:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
What will look like the house in which NASA will simulate life on Mars
Dr. Suzanne Bell, director of NASA's Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory

Four small rooms, a gym and lots of red sand – NASA has unveiled a house in which, starting in June, four people will be locked up for more than a year to simulate life on Mars.

The habitat, called Mars Dune Alpha, is located at the US space agency's research facility in Houston, Texas.

Four volunteers who will live there will help prepare a future mission to the Red Planet. By measuring their performance and cognitive abilities, NASA will better understand the "resources" that must be provided during this ambitious journey, Grace Douglas, the CHAPEA program manager overseeing the experiment, said Tuesday.

"This is going to be really important information for making key resource decisions," she said during a press tour of the habitat.

Such a mission comes with "very strict mass constraints," she added.

What does the house contain?

Volunteers will live in a 160 square meter house with two bathrooms, a vertical salad farm, a medical care room, a relaxation area and several workstations.

The air chamber leads to an "outside" reconstruction of the Martian environment - although still inside the hangar. Several pieces of equipment that could be used by astronauts are scattered across the red sand floor, including a meteorological station, a brick-making device and a small greenhouse.

They also have a special routine

There is also a treadmill where training astronauts will walk suspended by belts to simulate the lower gravity of the Red Planet.

"We can't just make them walk for six hours," joked Suzanne Bell, director of NASA's Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory. Four volunteers will use the rover to simulate long trips abroad to collect samples, data or build infrastructure, she said.

Regular tests

Members of the first experimental team have not yet been named, but the agency said the selection "will follow NASA's standard criteria for astronaut candidates." Scientists will regularly test the crew's response to stressful situations, such as limited water availability or equipment failures.

The habitat has another special feature: it is printed with 3D technology

"It's one of the technologies NASA is studying for building potential habitats on other planetary or lunar surfaces," Douglas said.

NASA is in the early stages of preparing for a mission to Mars, although much of the agency's focus is on the upcoming Artemis missions, which aim to return humans to the Moon for the first time in half a century.

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