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Related: About this forum"Ohhhh. Living on Mars would be cool!" Nope. Don't think so.
In anticipation of going to Mars, we're going to run a Mars simulator, where several people will spend a year living like sardines in a tin. The idea is to do psychological profiling to find out which people can deal with it and which cannot. Put me in Column B. I'm not even considering the months of travel time to get to and from Mars, time spent in an even tighter space than the habitat. Yikes!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/opinions/nasa-mars-simulator-volunteers-chiao/index.html
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"Ohhhh. Living on Mars would be cool!" Nope. Don't think so. (Original Post)
SarahD
Feb 2024
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Nope. Not enough mass and it's interior has cooled off enough not to be able to hold an atomosphere.
marble falls
Feb 2024
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marble falls
(62,544 posts)1. Nope. Not enough mass and it's interior has cooled off enough not to be able to hold an atomosphere.
SWBTATTReg
(24,393 posts)2. Some have been living on a cramped space station for some time, isn't this enough psychological profiling?
lastlib
(24,993 posts)3. Yeah, it'd be cool.....like Anarctica "cool"........
It's brutally cold up there! No, thank you.
Jim__
(14,513 posts)4. We should let Elon try it out and report back in about 10 years.
Wonder Why
(4,756 posts)5. Shush! We're trying to sell the maggots on the idea. Don't ruin it for us.
eppur_se_muova
(37,716 posts)6. Well, thermally speaking, yes.
Remember, Mars has Dry Ice 'snow'.