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The Mars landing module simulator was only used during the 30-day "Mars-orbiting" phase of the experiment. The 6.3 m × 6.17 m (20.7 ft × 20.2 ft) cylindrical module accommodated up to three crew members, and had three bunk beds, two workstations, and a toilet.
The habitat, known as Mars Dune Alpha, is a 1700 square foot 3D-printed area designed to simulate the type of structure that would be built on a mission to Mars. [6] It includes crew quarters, an exercise area, [ 7 ] a work room, a recreation area, and a crop area. [ 3 ]
NASA's Space Power Facility was used to test the airbag landing systems for the Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, under simulated Mars atmospheric conditions. Gravity. The gravity of Mars is about 38% of Earth's gravity at the surface, [11] about 3.7 metres per second 2. [12]
During the mission many aspects of a Mars mission were simulated (see Mars analog habitat), such as a communication delay time and isolation. [22] Many aspects of a Mars mission were not simulated, such as the reduced gravity of Mars. [22] They did live at a higher altitude, [21] which would have slightly boosted radiation exposure from space ...
The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station located near Hanksville, Utah. The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is the largest and longest-running Mars surface research facility and is one of two simulated Mars analog habitats owned and operated by the Mars Society.
The Mars Mission (intense or Orange Mission) includes a liftoff from the ISTC, a slingshot around the moon for a gravity-assisted boost, followed by a brief period of simulated hypersleep (to pass the lengthy time required to reach Mars), and a descent for landing on the Martian surface, where riders manually control the vehicle with a joystick.
Mars Analogue Research Station Program (MARS) – This project, run by the Mars Society, includes stations at Devon Island in the Arctic (see also HMP) and Southern Utah . Multinational teams live and work at the stations for two to four weeks conducting simulated missions and science experiments, testing hardware and operational concepts.
A small pile of JSC MARS-1A [1] A jar of Martian regolith simulant JSC MARS-1A. Martian regolith simulant (or Martian soil simulant) is a terrestrial material that is used to simulate the chemical and mechanical properties of Martian regolith for research, experiments and prototype testing of activities related to Martian regolith such as dust mitigation of transportation equipment, advanced ...