Mars Mission Is it possible?

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 .

Mars Roboter

Left Opportunity

center Pathfinder

right Curiosity

Mars Mission Control Austria

The spacesuit were tested on a glacial

and in the desert

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Mars Mission Control • We had a tele conference with a scientist of the mars mission. • Gernot Grömer" , "Sebastian Hettrich" during the World Space Week • AUSTRIAN SPACE FORUM Innsbruck Office, Sillufer 3a, 6020 Innsbruck, AUSTRIA

Basic Problems • Is there enough water? • Energy for the Rocket propulsion • Loss of bone density • Cosmic radiation • food

Cosmic Radiation

Is there enough water? There are also ice sheets on Mars, partly of carbon dioxide, partly of water.

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.

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.

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.

A mars station could look so.

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.

A mars mission is possible 2028!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.