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Titan has a surface gravity of 0.138 g, slightly less than the Moon. Managing long-term effects of low gravity on human health [8] would therefore be a significant issue for long-term occupation of Titan, more so than on Mars. These effects are still an active field of study.
While humans can breathe pure oxygen, usually additional gases such as nitrogen are included in the breathing mix. One possibility is to use in situ nitrogen and argon from the atmosphere of Mars, but they are hard to separate from each other. [63] As a result, a Mars habitat may use 40% argon, 40% nitrogen, and 20% oxygen. [63]
Human explorers may be potential carriers back to Earth of microorganisms acquired on Mars, if such microorganisms exist. [45] Another issue is the contamination of the water supply by Earth microorganisms shed by humans in their stools, skin and breath, which could have a direct effect on the long-term human colonization of Mars. [8]
This week, explore the technology that could allow humans to live on Mars, uncover the truth of a Neanderthal flower burial, ... After nearly two weeks of studying the moon, India’s Chandrayaan ...
A growing number of scientists think human colonization of the solar system is inevitable. It's not clear when we'll see humans walking around on the moon or Mars, but it's coming, and it's going ...
It's no match for Mars (where temperatures can go below -153C) or Moon (where -250C is the norm in some deep craters), but still, it's a test of human endurance.
Planetary habitability in the Solar System is the study that searches the possible existence of past or present extraterrestrial life in those celestial bodies. As exoplanets are too far away and can only be studied by indirect means, the celestial bodies in the Solar System allow for a much more detailed study: direct telescope observation, space probes, rovers and even human spaceflight.
Colonies on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, or the metal-rich planet Mercury, could extract local materials. The Moon is deficient in volatiles such as argon, helium and compounds of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. The LCROSS impacter was targeted at the Cabeus crater which was chosen as having a high concentration of water for the Moon. A plume of ...