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Welcome to the future—and to Candor Chasma Base Station!

Welcome to the future—and to Candor Chasma Base Station!. Fictional research outpost on Mars Set in the year 2047. DMNS/Rick Wicker. People haven’t really landed on Mars, but someday they might. This exhibit shows. What the Martian surface looks like

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Welcome to the future—and to Candor Chasma Base Station!

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  1. Welcome to the future—and to Candor Chasma Base Station! • Fictional research outpost on Mars • Set in the year 2047 DMNS/Rick Wicker

  2. People haven’t really landed on Mars, but someday they might.This exhibit shows • What the Martian surface looks like • What it might be like to live and work on Mars • Simulations of experiments as if performed on Mars DMNS/Rick Wicker

  3. Candor Chasma (KAN-dor KAZ-ma) is a real place on Mars. • Near the Martian equator • Side canyon of Valles Marineris—the Martian “Grand Canyon” • Reconstructed from Mars Global Surveyor satellite data Mars Global Surveyor/NASA

  4. Mars has layered cliffs and outcrops, but we don’t know how they formed. • Windblown dust? • Liquid water? • Volcanic ash? • Some other process? DMNS/Rick Wicker

  5. STAY AWHILE! • Check out the robotic rover to the left of the diorama, where you can analyze some “Mars rocks.”

  6. If people lived and worked on Mars, they’d need structures that protect them from harsh conditions. • Dust storms • Extreme cold • Low gravity • Thin, unbreathable atmosphere DMNS/Rick Wicker

  7. Air temperatures on Mars are very cold, with extreme variation. • Coldest: -220º F (-140º C) • Warmest: 40º F (4º C) Michael Carroll

  8. Gravity on Mars is 3/8of Earth’s gravity. • If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you’d only weigh 38 pounds on Mars. • But your body’s mass would be the same on Mars as it is on Earth. NASA

  9. The Martian atmosphere isn’t much like Earth’s. • Atmospheric pressure on Mars is about .5% (half of 1%) of Earth’s. • 95% Carbon Dioxide with traces of Nitrogen and Argon. • Sky color ranges from yellowish-green to peach to butterscotch (depending on dust, time of day, location, and season). DMNS/Rick Wicker

  10. HANG AROUND A LITTLE LONGER! • Try your hand at some experiments at the Experiment Bar behind you.

  11. Mars has two tiny, irregularly-shaped moons. Can you spot them in the sky? • Phobos • 12 x 14 x 17 miles(18.6 x 22.2 x 26.6 km.) • Deimos • 7 x 8 x 9 miles (10.8 x 12.4 x 15.0 km.) NASA/Lee Krystek

  12. A Martian day lasts 24.6 hours. • It takes 24.6 hours for Mars to rotate completely on its axis. Phil James (Univ. Toledo), Steve Lee (CU), and NASA

  13. A Martian year is 687 days long. • It takes Mars nearly twice as long as Earth to go all the way around the Sun. Illustration by Medialab, ESA 2001

  14. STICK AROUND! • Maybe you’ll get to see an “astronaut” doing simulated experiments in the diorama.

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