Why Living Under a Dome on Mars Would Kill You

Описание: It is one of the oldest dreams of the space age: a city on Mars, sheltered under a great dome of glass, with gardens, trees and people walking in shirtsleeves beneath a rust-colored sky. Tonight, we live inside that picture for one whole Martian year. We fill the dome with air on the first morning, spend its first afternoon and its first freezing night, and follow it through the months: the radiation that passes through the glass, the air that slowly disappears, the day a panel cracks, and the long dust season. Along the way, we look at what real missions and experiments have taught us, from Curiosity's radiation detector and the MOXIE oxygen experiment to Biosphere 2 and NASA's year-long CHAPEA habitat. Why would a glass dome on Mars not keep anyone safe? And what will the first real home on Mars probably look like instead?

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Main sources

NASA, Mars Fact Sheet (NSSDC): https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...
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NASA, MOXIE completes its mission (2023): https://phys.org/news/2023-09-nasa-ox...
NASA, Exploration Atmospheres (NTRS): https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240...
NASA JPL, InSight and Martian dust: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-i...
NASA CHAPEA, Mars Dune Alpha mission 1: https://www.space.com/nasa-simulated-...
NASA OIG (2024), ISS air leak: https://www.space.com/iss-leak-safety...
[ADD: Severinghaus et al. (1994) on Biosphere 2's oxygen · Zeitlin et al. (2013) on cruise radiation · NASA History on Mir/Spektr (1997) and Soyuz 11 (1971) · NASA Phoenix perchlorate results · Opportunity mission end (NASA JPL, 2019)]