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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: First laboratory on Mars; equipment and scientists.

I think a lot of the science will be biological and medical

People on Colonies will get injured and to be able to manufacture simple prosthetics on a base on the Moon or Mars and then deliver these limbs to a person on Mars could itself be a big industry

Social manufacting and habitat probelms
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7525
There is a very good 3-D priting thread here
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6103
A general tech updates thread
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9246
Medical science thread and Bioprinter That “Prints” Skin Cells Onto Wounds
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3430&p=2

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: First laboratory on Mars; equipment and scientists.

How scientists developed new composites with good shielding performance to space radiation?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945105

The first labs could be unmanned with the Commerical Sector helping deliver payload. One clear thing that would happen is a continuation of what was already done in Space, mapping the Mars tunnels and out gassing and ice sheets, the effects Mars dust on animal and equipment the effects of radiation on human blood cells. One could continue work already done in the ISS or on the Moon but with the same goal of studing Mars, the analysis of the impact of microgravity on organisms, as well as the effects of electric and magnetic fields, what has been learned from Skylab and MIR and how to build and continue on these lab experiments, how to protect from Solar Storms. Studying what Mars will do to animal life plants and insects taken from Earth and trasnproted to Mars, similar work to China with a Rover and a plant animal biosphere inside, maybe Mars could have Biosatellites or a Plane like the experiments on the Shuttle,  Biosatellite programs for astrobiology, radiobiology and materials science experiments, NASA had Biosat 1 , Russia had satellites with similar experiments, the ESA did BIOPAN and a failed Foton-M, Chinese also did experiments before launching their manned missions.

Eventually the Animal Inspect robot Labs move out to make room for the true human colony 'experiment' of sorts adding a new era of Mars colonization.

There are often many new unforeseen technological advances across other industry which add new developments to space for example how much 3-D printing has come along or A.I software giving computer artificial intelligence.

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SpaceNut

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Re: First laboratory on Mars; equipment and scientists.

So what would be a good animal experiment to send for getting life data for Mars with regards to Radiation, use of mars air, getting water from the ice and seeing what contaminant would be harmful in dosses ect....

Oldfart1939

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Re: First laboratory on Mars; equipment and scientists.

My focus, when starting this thread, was finding evidence for life--either past or present--on the Red Planet
I'm not suggesting a robotic pre-human landing as experiments that are medically oriented.
Humans are needed to do the sort of work that I'm suggesting, and that includes finding suitable samples collected by a geologist-biologist team walking on foot through regions of high probability of life.

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: First laboratory on Mars; equipment and scientists.

Lunar Helium-3 Fusion Resource Distribution
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/studies/19 … tribution/

China opens space station door to working with foreign astronauts
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science … astronauts

Moon and Mars superoxides for oxygen farming
https://www.earthspacehumanity.com/2022 … n-farming/

Is there alien life on the moons of Jupiter or Saturn?
https://www.economist.com/the-economist … -or-saturn

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: First laboratory on Mars; equipment and scientists.

"Humans on Mars could conduct far better science than any machine" article by Leonard David

https://www.space.com/humans-on-mars-be … ce-machine