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Hanksville, Utah

Mars Desert Research Station- used for practicing using a spacesuit

How long did its warm age last?

over a billion years

finally what would make the atmosphere breathable on mars

plants

Concordia Station, Antartica

Mars like quality- severe cold

Kilauea, Hawaii

Mars like quality: Ash-soil texture Used for: trip duration isolation

Areography

the study and mapping of the geography of mars

Svalbard Island, Norway

they have extreme microbial life

Why does watney try to burn hydrogen and oxygen

to make water

what is "terraforming" mars

to transform into a habitable place

Key Largo, Florida (Aquarius Undersea Lab)

Nasa Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) Used for: reduced gravity simulation

At the mars desert research station in Utah, crews up to 6 people at a time will live for how long here

up to 48 days

Death Valley, CA

used for operating a rover

McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antartica

used for: inflatable Habitat

Where else has the mars society built other research stations

Northern Canada and Iceland

Reunion Island

Piton Volcano, used for working in a volcanic landscape

Atacama Desert, Chile

Severe Aridity

What is a full day on mars referred to as

Sol=2 days on earth

What 2 kinds of radiation must astronauts contend with in space?

Solar flares and cosmic rays

According to Chris McKay, what should we do for other planets in our solar system?

Spread life

How long does a mars year last

about 2 Earth years

Viking Landers

landed in 1976 - no longer operating

Path finder lander and sojoyner rover

landed in 1997- no longer operating

spirit rover

landed in 2004- no longer operating

opportunity rover

landed in 2004- stopped operating in 2018

Pheonix lander

landed in 2008- no longer operating

curiosity rover

landed in 2012- still going

Insight lander

landed in 2018- still drilling

Perserverance Rover

landed in 2021- still going

What is the communication lag time between mars and earth

32 minutes

its largest canyon is how many times deeper than our Grand Canyon

3x deeper

How long is the trip to reach mars

6 months

What is Mars' average temperature?

80 below 0

What is the name of the mission site

Ares III

Darien Jungle, Panama

Astronaut Jungle Surviving School- mental and physical stress simulation

How long is mars' day

24 hours and 37 minutes

How does Mars gravity compare to Earth?

1/3 of Earth's gravity

How soon does Chris McKay think we can warm up mars (if you trap 10% of all photons)?

100 years

The amount of air on Mars is how many times less than on Earth?

100x less

When is the likelihood NASA will place a man on mars?

2025

When does NASA plan to make return trips to the moon, and work on establishing a base there?

2035

Devon Island, Canada

Used for the: Haughton impact crater Mars like quality=Surface terrain

About 2 billion years ago, what was mars like?

Warm, wetter and very similar to earth

Do we have a vehicle planned to protect future Mars travelers from solar flares?

Yes, it is like a storm shelter

One idea is to create greenhouse gasses to trap heat, which would cause what to release from the martian soil?

carbon dioxide

If one of the Apollo flights had encountered a solar flare, how much "radiation dose" would they have gotten hit with?

entire lifetime of radiation dose

What would happen if you exposed a glass of liquid water to Mars atmosphere?

it would boil bc of the lack of air pressure

Where are its "oceans of water" right now?

frozen into the soil

What must we do to officially colonize a new place

grow crops

How does mars size compare to earth

half the size of earth

what type of fertilizer does astronaut Watney use to grow potatoes in mars soil

human waste

what evidence of water do we see on mars

river valleys, deltas

As Mars warms up, what 2 things would appear on the mars surface?

water, rainclouds, plants

Eventually, will it be possible to grow crops on Mars?

yes

The second type of radiation- cosmic rays- Can it be avoided with shielding?

yes, but it needs many meters of shielding


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