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has invited the public to a chance to go to Mars - or, as close as you can get to Mars on Earth. The space agency is seeking volunteers to test out living in the 1,700-square-foot habitat known as Mars Dune Alpha to determine, as realistically as possible, how living on Mars would affect humans. Four volunteer crew members have already been living in that habitat, having entered in June 2023, and they will emerge in July of this year.
's experiment is also a way to understand how Mars might impact the human body. Even though humans have been orbiting Earth since the 1970s, with over 600 astronauts going to space, the space stations have always been under the protection of Earth's magnetosphere. "So they don't get exposed to the radiation that space has to offer, which differs from what we have here on Earth.
, but at big, private companies like SpaceX, and more beyond that. Kelly said that to the sci-fi geeks out there, the idea of waking up on the surface of Mars and seeing a Martian sunrise sounds absolutely epic, "But there are people who have other specific reasons for going, and it sort of depends on the community that you're talking to," she said. One perk is reducing pressure on planet Earth by moving people off and away.
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