Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Involved in the Mars.....



Involved in the Mars 500 mission six members: three from Russia, two from the European Union, one from China.

A study published in the PNAS study results indicate that long-term space flight will give astronauts sleep difficult. Astronauts selected for interstellar voyage to Mars.

Mars 500 (Mars500) project is used to simulate the practical issues encountered in the real Mars mission. Mathias Basner, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania to participate in the Mars 500 project-related sleep. He said, to participate in future mission to Mars, astronauts must have the ability to maintain good sleep no diurnal cycles.

BBC news channel, he said: there is a great difference between individuals in the sleep rhythm, we have to do is pick those in long-term space flight environment but also to maintain good sleep, and strengthened for a Mars mission characteristics life training. "

Most of the time, the personnel involved in the Mars 500 project only in a limited way, and contact with the outside world. No windows, they JEM also provides for communication with the outside world to have a delay (in a real Mars mission, due to the distance between Earth and Mars is very far away, the propagation of radio signals also need ten minutes of the time).

Mars 500 project, nearly 100 experiments on human voyage to Mars. The sleep survey is given the conclusions of the first experiment. The researchers found that one completely lost the natural rhythm of day and night, his day became 25 hours. 12 days later, he completely lost synchronization with other staff time. If this kind of thing in real trip to Mars, it will disrupt the collaboration between the astronauts and affect the team's ability to cooperate, scientists must be addressed in the future.

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