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SarahD

(1,732 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 02:26 PM Feb 2024

"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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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.
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 02:29 PM
Feb 2024

SWBTATTReg

(24,393 posts)
2. Some have been living on a cramped space station for some time, isn't this enough psychological profiling?
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 02:55 PM
Feb 2024

lastlib

(24,993 posts)
3. Yeah, it'd be cool.....like Anarctica "cool"........
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 03:11 PM
Feb 2024

It's brutally cold up there! No, thank you.

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