NASA plan to SEND LIFE to Mars to create oxygen before human colonisation

[Melech 9,900]

"The agency is planning to send microscopic organisms into space to land on the Red Planet, in order to see if they can produce oxygen and therefore pave the way for humans to one day colonise Mars.

The experiment follows successful laboratory tests on algae and bacteria and how they react with soil from Mars.

NASA experimented in a specially-created "dummy Mars" to see if astronauts would be able to use microorganisms from Earth together with the surface of Mars to create life-sustaining oxygen.

Experts are confident of being able to land on Mars from 2030 and hope the pioneering new technology will be available at that time.

The agency has been working with company Techshot Inc, from South Carolina, on the technology in a special 'Mars room; laboratory, which replicates the conditions of the red planet on Earth.

So far during experiments, some minute organisms were capable of making oxygen out of Martian soil - which is called regolith.

These microscopic creatures were also found to have removed nitrogen from the soil.

Eugene Boland, chief scientist at Techshot, said: "This is a possible way to support a human mission to Mars, producing oxygen without having to send heavy gas canisters. Let’s send microbes and let them do the heavy-lifting for us."

This is a possible way to support a human mission to Mars, producing oxygen without having to send heavy gas canisters. Let’s send microbes and let them do the heavy-lifting for us. 

Researchers predict "biomes" - or huge tents - containing the organisms will be spread across the surface of Mars to produce and store oxygen to allow humans to breathe.

They now want to carry out the same tests as conducted in their laboratories on Mars itself.

It is anticipated organisms that created oxygen from the soil in the laboratory will be sent to the Red Planet in an unmanned probe with a surface operated "rover" - which would bury them on the surface of Mars in containers.

Sensors would then measure how much oxygen, if any, is made.

Researchers in the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Programme, are mindful of the risk of contaminating Mars with "alien" life from Earth and acknowledge they will have to ensure the containers are tightly sealed and unbreakable.

If all goes to plan they believe one day multiple biomes on the surface of Mars could make the planet habitable for humans."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/578065/NASA-SEND-LIFE-Mars-create-oxygen-human-colonisation

 

 

[darkchylde 14,857]

Can't believe we're thinking of f*cking up another planet... When are we going to realize some things are not for us to enjoy?

[OBEY 57,109]

thinking of some people i would like to be sent there tbh  

[My Little Phoney 658]

thinking of some people i would like to be sent there tbh  

​What has Leighton Meester done that you that makes you wanna send her to Mars??

[Serendipity 7,821]

Can't believe we're thinking of f*cking up another planet... When are we going to realize some things are not for us to enjoy?

​One day there will be too much of human population, where will they go then?

Nice step they took

[LePetitGAGABLover 21,234]

Mess. We should be more worried about fixing this planet

Sounds cool though

[OBEY 57,109]

​What has Leighton Meester done that you that makes you wanna send her to Mars??

​I was not talking about Leighton honey
more about some people i know  

[PartySick 172,612]

I'm excited to see this happen in my lifetime 

Earth's got, maybe, a few hundred million to 1 billion years before the sun's expansion makes it too hot to support life. At that point, if we're still around, we'll need to either become a space species or find a temporary home and Mars is a perfect place. It's very similar to Earth, just smaller and colder.

[My Little Phoney 658]

​I was not talking about Leighton honeymore about some people i know  

​Like Iggy Banks or Azeilya Azeleah what's her name again I can't remember?

[Serendipity 7,821]

​Like Iggy Banks or Azeilya Azeleah what's her name again I can't remember?

​LOL the double shade

[HausOfNena 1,712]

Cool. 

[Melech 9,900]

Can't believe we're thinking of f*cking up another planet... When are we going to realize some things are not for us to enjoy?

​Well Mars is a huge desert. There isn't much to fück up 

[antpats2 4,219]

I'm excited to see this happen in my lifetime 

Earth's got, maybe, a few hundred million to 1 billion years before the sun's expansion makes it too hot to support life. At that point, if we're still around, we'll need to either become a space species or find a temporary home and Mars is a perfect place. It's very similar to Earth, just smaller and colder.

​but by then when the sun expands, mars will pretty much be as close to the sun as mercury is, now. meaning it would be too hot for human life, or any life at all. And all the planets behind it are gas giants with no hard surface, besides pluto which is too far away. i guess we could live on one of Jupiter/Saturns moons one day tho 

[Elokan 0]

Rocket #9 take off to the planet, to the planet MARS 

[Melech 9,900]

​but by then when the sun expands, mars will pretty much be as close to the sun as mercury is, now. meaning it would be too hot for human life, or any life at all. And all the planets behind it are gas giants with no hard surface, besides pluto which is too far away. i guess we could live on one of Jupiter/Saturns moons one day tho 

​You can't live on gas planets