2024-07-08 10:11:58
Four NASA scientists completed a 378-day mission in artificially created Martian conditions in Houston, USA, AFP reported, BTA reported. The goal is to explore ways to prepare for settlement on the red planet.
Anka Selariu, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones and team leader Kelly Heston have been trapped for 378 days in a simulated “Martian habitat”.
All the while, they grew vegetables, walked on red sand, and worked under stressors such as isolation and delayed communication with Earth and their families.
The team has spent its entire mission conducting important scientific research primarily based on nutrition.
This is the first of three NASA-led Project Analogue crew health and performance missions.
Another one-year mission simulating life on Mars already took place between 2015 and 2016 in Hawaii. It was involved but not controlled by NASA.
As part of its Artemis program, Washington plans to send humans to the moon again. They should study how a human could survive away from Earth in the long term and thus prepare for a trip to Mars. The possible deadline for a mission to Mars is the end of the 30s of the current century.