Week 3 Development

Week 3 of Development!

Originally Published:  at  01:48 AM
Updated:  at  01:46 AM

At the start of this week, we had a brief discussion and confirmed that our destination for this project will be Mars as it is more beneficial for us in the future in this project.

This week, we started looking at the Gravity problems we will face on Mars. Mars's mass is much less than that of Earth's, so its gravitational force is also much less than on Earth. This would lead to problems such as health, constructions, farming food, and even just our daily lives. We thought about solutions that could be possible.

Gravity Map
Figure 1: Brainstorm of Gravity Solutions

On week three of the development we looked at the Gravity of Mars and how we will deal with the massive decrease. The problem with the decrease is that the bones of the people will get weaker and they won't be able to go to any place with a higher gravity. We looked at three main options the first one was to use a centrifuge which is a spinning object that will simulate gravity the problem with this is if we wanted our base to have this running all the time it would use a lot of energy that we don't have.

Mars Base Concept with Centrifuge
Figure 2: Mars Base Concept with Centrifuge (Nebergall 2019)

The second option would be to get metal plates for all the people and weigh them down the problem with that is the the metal plates would take up space and could make it difficult to take off.

Metal Plates
Figure 3: Metal Plates (HRVMAG 2021)

The final idea we had was to let the people just adapt to the gravity of Mars this means they can't leave Mars, which is a massive problem because if we have to leave and our only option is a gravity with a high gravity we are all dead.