• Seven students from Isae-Supaéro will spend three weeks in the base simulating Martian life in Utah.

  • They will take the opportunity to conduct a dozen experiments to prepare for future spaceflight.

  • Among the exercises, rescue a lost astronaut 

For three weeks, their horizon will be limited to this red rock, so similar to that of Mars.

Seven students from Isae-Supaéro will, from February 20, voluntarily reconfine themselves to advance space science.

To achieve this, they will join the American station for the simulation of the Martian environment, located in the Utah desert.

They will conduct a dozen experiments there, one of which will focus on geology.

Crew 263 will thus probe the surroundings of the station using a laser spectroscopy instrument, in partnership in particular with the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse.

“He lends us the instrument which is on the same principle as the one on Supercam.

We said to ourselves that if we could do it on a rover, why not test it in the Utah desert with a portable model”, explains Marine Prunier, president of the Mars Club of Isae which is part of the adventure.

Sleep and rescue on the program

With his acolytes, they will also test the Dreem headband, which makes it possible to analyze the quality of sleep and correlate it with his cognitive abilities.

They will also put themselves in the shoes of an astronaut, faced with a disaster scenario, that of getting lost on Mars.

On the border between science and fiction.

A good way to test the role that a drone could play in finding him.

While a first machine of this type flew last year on the red planet, they will experiment thanks to a device from the French company Parrot, the possibility of going to rescue a lost astronaut, to find him thanks to a thermal camera. and guide him to the life base.

“We are doing our bit to facilitate the future potential of man in space,” continues Marine Prunier, who already claims to have learned a lot by talking to all the scientists who will use the results of their research.

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