2. Was or is there life?
• On January 24, 2014, NASA
reported :
The search for evidence
of habitability, taphonomy (relate
d to fossils), and organic
carbon on the planet Mars is now
a primary NASA objective.
7. Mars Mission Control
• We had a tele conference with a scientist of the mars mission.
• Gernot Grömer" <gernot.groemer@oewf.org>, "Sebastian
Hettrich"<sebastian.hettrich@web.de>
during the World Space Week
• AUSTRIAN SPACE FORUM
Innsbruck Office, Sillufer 3a, 6020 Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
8.
9. Basic Problems
•Is there enough water?
•Energy for the Rocket propulsion
•Loss of bone density
•Cosmic radiation
•food
11. Is there enough water?
There are also ice sheets on Mars, partly of carbon dioxide, partly of
water.
12. The energy for the Rockets
The water on Mars will be decomposed by solar energy into hydrogen
and oxygen and will be used as fuel.
13. Loss of bone density
A Russian doctor has developed a method to counter this problem.
With a medicament the start of the bon density can be delayed for ten
years. This time should be enough for a Mars mission.
14. The start of the return trip to earth
The start will work similar as the one of the moon landing, the lower
part of the capsule will be the start ramp and stay on Mars.
16. Biosphere 2
• Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility.
• It is originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological
system and it explored the web of interactions within life.
• It also explored the use of closed biospheres in space colonization,
and allowed the study and manipulation of a biosphere without
harming Earth's.
• It’s observed by the NASA, because it could be important for the Mars
Mission.
19. Summary of my presentation
• Foil 2: On January 24, 2014, NASA reported that current studies on
the planet Mars by the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers will now be
searching for evidence of ancient life, including a biosphere based
on autotrophic, chemotrophic,
and/or chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms, as well as ancient
water, including fluvio-lacustrine environments(plains related to
ancient rivers or lakes) that may have been habitable The search for
evidence of habitability, taphonomy (related to fossils), and organic
carbon on the planet Mars is now a primary NASA objective.
20. Summary of my presentation
• Foil 4: The commando of the Mars Mission Control is in Innsbruck
(Austria).
• Foil 5+6: The spacesuits and the equipment were tested on a glacial
and in the desert.
• Foil 7: The Mars Mission control Austria organised the World Space
Week. During this week we had the chance to have a live conference
with a scientist. We asked him a lot of things of the Mars mission and
he answered our question. At the following foil you can see the
biggest problems, which he had told us.
21. Summary of my presentation
• Foil 10:cosmic radiation
• The space radiation on Mars is very high, of course there are protective suits,
they cannot stop radiation altogether. There are considerations to Mars since
the consequences of radiation would not be so bad as older people do not
have such a long life-span left.
• Foil 11:Is there enough water?
• There is a light morning dew on Mars, which indicates water. There are also
ice sheets on Mars, partly of carbon dioxide, partly of water. Furthermore you
could extract oxygen from the ice.
22. Summary of my presentation
• Foil 12: The energy for the rockets
• There is the possibility to bring the fuel from the earth for the start from
Mars. Of course, rockets with far stronger propulsion would be needed to
enable them to break away from earth gravity. There should be ways to
produce rocket fuel on Mars, either from ice or moisture in the atmosphere.
On the first mission to Mars, enough fuel for the return flight should probably
be brought from earth. Both approaches could be tried, attempt to produce
enough fuel for the return flight on Mars and still have enough in reserve,
should the production not be successful. Should the production succeed, the
fuel from earth could be stored on Mars for future flights, should problems
develop in the marsian production. Locally (martian) produced fuel would be
preferable to terran fuel.
23. Summary of my presentation
• Foil 13: Loss of bone density
• Another problem is the bone density, but a Russian doctor has
developed a method to counter this problem. With a medicament
the start of the bone density can be delayed for ten years. This
time should be enough for a Mars mission.
• Foil 14: The start of the return trip to earth
• The start will work similar as the one of the moon landing, the lower part of
the capsule will be the start ramp and stay on Mars.
24. Summary of my presentation
• Foil 16:Biosphere 2
• Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility. It has
been owned by the University of Arizona since 2011. Its mission is
to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong
learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the
universe. It is originally built to be an artificial, materially closed
ecological system in Oracle, Arizona, US by Space Biosphere
Ventures, Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it explored the
web of interactions within life. It also explored the use of closed
biospheres in space colonization, and allowed the study and
manipulation of a biosphere without harming Earth's.
