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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: ROBERT on 08/02/2006 15:12:50
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"" MARS MICE by Karen Miller
In 2006 a group of mice-astronauts will orbit Earth inside a spinning spacecraft.
Their mission: to learn what its like to live on Mars.
The mice will be exposed to Mars-gravity for about five weeks. Then, says Wooster, they'll return to Earth alive and well. The mice will descend by parachute and land near Woomera, Australia, inside a small capsule reminiscent of NASA's old Apollo capsules.""
http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/mice.asp
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Any resemblance to the "Clangers" is purely coincidental [:)]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/intro.shtml
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It is a pity the mice-tronauts do not have an exercise wheel:
it could have been used as a back-up gyroscope. [:)]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/040423-iss-gyroscope.htm
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This is great Robert. Thank you for all your great links. It'll be fascinating to see gow the mice get on. I wonder if the mice have to go through extensive training !!...it's almost funny to say that but I bet there are certain procedures that they go through. I can't imagine them in a spacesuit in a big swimmingpool as i doubt they'll be doing a spacewalk but do you think they may have to undergo those centrifugal things ?
Chris..this would be a good topic for your radio show.
Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!
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"Huston, we have a problem, we've ran out of sunflower seeds". [:)]
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Some FAQs about the "mars mice" mission:-
http://www.marsgravity.org/main/faq.htm
Here is a NASA graph showing the effects of micro-gravity:-
(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi24.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc23%2FSUEDONIM%2Fmicrog2.gif&hash=9dcf1199908da6733d5a08e3db0363a8)
""humans appear to lose bone mass continuously in microgravity, even with countermeasures applied.""
http://www.marsgravity.org/main/science.htm