On Earth, in the desert, there is a station where exactly simulated the conditions of life on Mars
Optional fly to Mars to find out what is there to live in the world there are places where you can get the same experience, or rather, not quite get rather imitate.
This is what doing now Mars Society - people dressed in suits and live in isolation in the rocky desert of Utah, trying to understand all the charm of Martian life. Researchers based at the special live, eat only advance brought from a food rations, conduct scientific experiments and washed once in three days.
Utah desert, where the Martian research station, is very similar to Mars - it's hot, windy, red and stony. Every time the team leaves the station, they have to go through the airlock - just like in science fiction movies.
Now the team consists of four men and four women living in close two-storey module of 65 km from the nearest town - Henksvilya. Their contacts with the outside world is very limited. Even the internet is so slow that they can not afford to send a maximum of a few letters a day.
Their communication is monitored and recorded every two weeks. All details are important - mental state, food intake, exercise. 27-year-old commander of the mission, Lara Vimercati, a biologist at NASA explains:
«All that we do every day, we do so as if truly are on another planet. We need to put on the suit and go through the gateway, before I go out ».
blockquote> In spite of all the difficulties and the efforts of the crew, there is no guarantee that they will ever get to the real Red Planet. Vimercati said that would very much like to be the first man to set foot on Mars, but the first to be engineers. Settlers should be able to rectify the situation, if something breaks. But Vimercati optimistic: it is - a biologist, so it may well be those who find life on Mars.
The purpose of this Martian research station (and one more like the Arctic) - to help scientists better understand what the astronauts will face on the Red Planet. Well, this is the best method available to us to find out what will happen to the people before sending them to another planet.
via factroom.ru
