The AMADEE-20 experiment or how to survive a month on Mars

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In the next decade, SpaceX wants to send people to Mars. If it really can do it, space travelers will have to survive in quite difficult conditions. They will have to live on a distant planet with limited oxygen, water and food. Another problem is that the transmission of messages between Mars and Earth takes about 10 minutes. To find out what other difficulties future colonizers of Mars may face, Israeli scientists with participants of the Austrian Space Forum decided to conduct the AMADEE-20 experiment. As part of it, six volunteers will live in the Israeli Negev desert, where conditions are as similar as possible to Martian ones. The experiment will last a whole month and has already begun .



The Israeli Negev Desert was chosen as the location for the canada number data experiment, namely the Ramon Crater, which is located in it. It is believed that this landform has an unusual origin. As a result of the uplift of the soil, cracks once formed in these lands, into which water entered. Over time, the soft rocks that were inside were washed out and an empty space formed there. After some time, a thin layer on top collapsed, forming a fairly large crater. Its dimensions constantly became larger due to the washing out of the soil by rains. At the moment, the length of the Ramon Crater is 40 kilometers, and the depth is approximately 350 meters.



Until 1994, the Ramon Crater was actively exploited for minerals such as clay, gypsum and sand. But as soon as it became clear that such activities were harmful to the environment, the state began to monitor the work carried out. In 1998, the Israeli government decided to turn this area into a protected reserve. As a result, experts developed a plan to restore the natural landscape and the population of local animals. Apparently, the participants of the Austrian Space Forum somehow managed to get permission to conduct an experiment.