(CNN) If we make it to Mars, we're not going to be able to bring everything humankind needs to stay for an extended period of time -- or to construct colonies on the red planet.
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This strange biomaterial could be the basis of homes on Mars
Sustainability and closed-loop manufacturing are becoming an increasingly important topic for Earth-based manufacturing, but a new study has shown that these same principles can be lifted to model extraterrestrial travel as well.
Using a ubiquitous, organic polymer called chitin , found in everything from fungi fibers to shellfish shells, a team of researchers from Singapore has devised a low energy manufacturing material called "biolith." It uses Martian regolith — a loose mix of deposits that covers solid rock — and a chemically transformed solution of chitin to create a resilient, multi-use building material.
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What was it like to work on Mars 2020?
It’s hard not to get emotional even thinking about it. This rover really means everything. We couldn’t have named it anything better than Perseverance. I often reflect back on not seeing people who look like me in engineering. All of sudden you’re in the room, you’re in the meeting, you’re at the table, you're helping make the decisions, you’re leading the test, you’re in the thick of it.
What are your earliest memories of JPL?
My mom took me to a JPL open house one year. But when I was little, my earliest memory of JPL was when I used to sneak out of bed to watch "NOVA" on PBS. It was Wednesdays at 9 p.m., which was way past my bedtime as a kid. Every now and then, there would be an episode on space exploration. There was actually one on Saturn, and they were talking about engineers at the time who were sending a spacecraft called Cassini over to Saturn.
Sols 2885-2886: Once More With MTBSTFA – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
These blog updates are provided by self-selected Mars Science Laboratory mission team members who love to share what Curiosity is doing with the public.
Dates of planned rover activities described in these reports are subject to change due to a variety of factors related to the Martian environment, communication relays and rover status.
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Countdown to Mars: A Story of Perseverance (Mars 2020 Rover Behind the Scenes Video)
Well here we are at the Kennedy Space Center, literally four days away from launching Perseverance to Mars.
But we’re also gonna have Ingenuity with it. We’re gonna fly a helicopter on another world for the first time in human history.
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And we want you to come with us on this experience, not just for the launch, but for the entire mission, because there is so much discovery ahead of us.
So you can see the launchpad over there that looks like an upside-down L. That’s the launchpad that we use for our Atlas V launches. And it’s a — it’s the same launchpad that we use for Starliner. And of course, now we’re gonna launch Mars Perseverance from the same launchpad.
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Mars is now visible earlier in the evening, first appearing at about 8:45 p.m. on the eastern edge of the dim constellation Pisces. Almost straight above Mars and Pisces will be the Great Square of Pegasus. To the left of Pegasus is Andromeda with the closest large galaxy to us, the Andromeda Galaxy (aka M31), just above the middle stars of Andromeda.
The two giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, reign in the south as Mars rises. Jupiter is definitely the brighter of the two. As we catch up to Mars in our faster, inner orbit, the planet is getting very bright. Tonight it is almost as bright as Jupiter and at the end of the month, it will be as bright as Jupiter. (No, Mars will never be as big and bright as the full moon.)
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But what exactly have we learned about the history and origins of Mars? What is still to be discovered? And will we potentially ever see humans on the red planet?
Ashwin Segkar explored this topic with former NASA consultant and now Griffith University Professor Paulo de Souza.
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