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Little sister

The little sister in that loo was very different than the little sister she’d known before the ObsDome incident several months before. That little sister had been scared of the sound of her own breath (a Martian idiom that only made sense if you’d been in a suit on the surface, where your breathing was the only sound you could hear) and unable to handle any task under pressure. The sister now using the loo had dealt with one of the worst situations that can happen on Mars: sudden depressurization of a living space. Ori had saved herself and her classmates that day. Cas had helped at the end, but the point was that Ori had faced the problems as they arose and calmly dealt with them.

Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two

Coming in March

(image: Luis Peres)

 

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Loo

Cas smiled. “Now, press the button that says ‘Pressurize’,” she said. After a slight pause, she saw the sides of the loo go taut. “Let me know when the light turns green.”

“It’s green,” said Ori, voice high and nervous.

“Ok,” said Cas, “now you can open your suit and go to town.” She waited a bit. Then she made a loud fart sound with her tongue that left a splatter of spit on the inside of her visor.

“Cas! Stop it!” said Ori.

Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two

Coming in March

(image: Luis Peres)

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Hellas Planitia

Hellas Planitia is an impact basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Impact basin is the term scientists use when they mean “really big crater,” and, as craters go, Hellas is huge. Mars has two of the largest impact basins in the solar system, and Hellas is one of them. The object that struck here, four billion years ago, was big enough to leave a crater 2,300 kilometers across and 7,152 meters deep. The tallest mountains of Earth could sit in the bottom of Hellas and barely peek over the rim.

Four billion years later, the impact of that object turned out to be critical for human existence on Mars.

Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two

Coming in March

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(image: Luis Peres)

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Humans to Mars Report 2018

“The Humans to Mars Report (H2MR) is an annual publication that presents a snapshot of current progress in mission architectures, science, domestic and international policy, human factors, and public perception regarding human missions to Mars – and highlights progress and challenges from year to year. By doing so, H2MR provides stakeholders and policy makers with an invaluable resource to assist them in making decisions that are based on current facts rather than on the dated information and speculation that sometimes tends to persist in the public arena where Mars is concerned.”

https://www.exploremars.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/H2MR_18_Web.pdf

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Cities

“Inhabiting off-planet space offers the chance to experiment with new social and environmental arrangements that incorporate lessons we’ve learned from mistakes on Earth. “If you want to go to Mars, let’s live, and live happily, and live better than here on Earth,” says Vera Mulyani, an architect and founder of the Mars City Design competition. “Let’s design a better place for humanity.””


Co.Design | Fast Company

Co.Design | Fast Company

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A Mars Life

“We will have to live in domed cities and wearing spacesuits on Mars for a long time. But that’s not to say that we can’t have a really nice life. But it’s not gonna be an Earth life. It’s gonna be a Mars life.”

-John Grunsfeld, Associate Administator, former Astronaut, NASA

(From Nat Geo digital short “Finding Shelter on Mars”, http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/u/kcHFdMpA6aOk1uf9U–PNfETnzRnlxuRaqE-NlgZ_SbDUwaV2DA9Q8pdgmwf/)