We’ve talked a lot about what it would take to get humans to Mars, and even what a colony on Mars might look like. But soon we'd provide a few people one-way tickets to Mars. So how are they gonna survive? Turns out, scientists and engineers are planning about colonizing space for a short time.
As we sent human to the Moon, it seemed like a Mars colony couldn’t be too far off. But the 1970s came and went ... and the ’80s . . . and the ‘90s . . . and the 2000s. Still, no people on Mars -- and it’s looking like it isn’t going to happen in the 2010s, either. Well, you recognize what they say: The sixth decade’s the charm… right? Because now it’s 2020, and the crew of Mars One, a mission being planned by a nonprofit organization of the same name, could be the humans to colonize Mars. Right now, the mission is set to launch in 2026 -- though it’s already been delayed twice. But what’s so hard about fixing shop on Mars, anyway?
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There aren’t any five-star Martian hotels, so when it involves sleeping accommodations, it’s one among those “bring-your-own-room” situations. Before they send people Mars, One is getting to send missions with rovers and supplies, including living units and life support units that the robots will found out for the first group of astronauts. Then, after the primary crew lands, they’ll receive more supplies and found out the lebensraum for the second crew which pattern will continue for all of the missions afterwards.
Each astronaut will probably have around ten square meters of private living area. But there also are getting to be some common spaces like kitchens and hallways, so things shouldn’t get too cramped. They’re not luxury apartments, but they’re not half bad for Martian land. Now that we’ve got our astronauts settled in the Martian condos, what are they gonna eat? the thought is to grow many edible crops in special greenhouse sections of the habitats-- quite like what Mark Watney tried to try to within the Martian -- so there’s always food to reap.
The settlers got to ensure their plants have artificial light, CO2, nutrients, and water to grow. And Mars’s atmosphere could be very thin, but it's almost entirely CO2, so that’s an encouraging sign that we’ll be ready to use a number of the Martian air within the greenhouses. Scientists also think that Martian soil may need the proper nutrients for plants to grow, especially if astronauts supplement it with fertilizers and wash out a number of the things that might be toxic to humans. But finding water on a desert planet like Mars may be a little trickier. Fortunately, tons of scientists think that there is much water locked away within the topsoil and rocks. It’ll be up to those habitat-building robots to prove them right, extract some water, and obtain the initial crops growing. By the time the astronauts arrive, they’ll have some food to reap and can get to start planting their own. But, with food involves poop. So scientists are still trying to work out the way to affect all of the waste that folks and plants produce, especially because the colony grows. But who really cares about sleeping and eating if you can’t survive outside of a spacesuit:. . .
Where will breathable air come from? The atmosphere of Mars is incredibly thin having almost no oxygen. In fact, just about 0.13% of Mars’s atmosphere is oxygen, compared to that of Earth which is 21%. And humans, don’t tend to sustain long without oxygen. So an Earth-like atmosphere inside the habitats has got to come from somewhere, and that we need to make tons of it refill all that lebensraum.
Where will breathable air come from? The atmosphere of Mars is incredibly thin having almost no oxygen. In fact, just about 0.13% of Mars’s atmosphere is oxygen, compared to that of Earth which is 21%. And humans, don’t tend to sustain long without oxygen. So an Earth-like atmosphere inside the habitats has got to come from somewhere, and that we need to make tons of it refill all that lebensraum.
The plants will produce oxygen as they photosynthesize, but it might take an extended time for that oxygen to create up to life-sustaining levels. The hope is that some oxygen gas are often extracted from the Martian air, by basically splitting up the carbon and oxygen within the CO2, or it can come from the soil with the assistance of microbes. It’s getting to take a touch little bit of juggling to urge all of the proper gases within the right proportions within the air, but scientists are pretty sure it can work with the proper technologies. So will these plans work?
So Are we finally gonna send people to colonize Mars? Well, maybe.
So Are we finally gonna send people to colonize Mars? Well, maybe.
In a paper published earlier this year, a group of
scientists at MIT described a detailed simulation of the Mars One mission. In
the paper, they write, and I quote, “our analysis finds that the Mars One
mission plan, as publicly described, is not feasible.”But there are also a
bunch of scientists who think that Mars One is progressing right on track and
that it’s going to work. So it’s hard to say if we’re really going watch human
beings colonize the Red Planet in 2027. But we know that either way, NASA
has planned to send astronauts on Mars somewhere in the 2030s. So even if we
don’t have a colony set up by then, hopefully, the astronauts will return with
data that might help us plan for one in future.
Thank you for reading this article, Let's take mankind to space heights along with humanity . . .
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