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Humans on Mars Initiative

Humans on Mars Initiative

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    Humans on Mars

    Pathways to a long-term sustainable exploration

    © Joris Wegner, University of Bremen
  • Portrait of Lucio Colombi Ciacchi.

    Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

    “Learning how to produce metals and other materials on Mars will promote a transition from fire-driven to electricity-driven and CO₂-emission-free materials engineering for the first time ever.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Kurosch Rezwan working in the laboratory.

    Kurosch Rezwan

    “Thinking the unthinkable is what drives me. Mars is the perfect place for that.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Researcher Anastasyia Tönjes at work.

    Anastasiya Tönjes

    “Another planet means other materials. For me, as a materials scientist, it is a big challenge. With ‘Humans on Mars‘ I can explore the future today.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Sven Kerzenmacher working on an experiment.

    Sven Kerzenmacher

    “Martian reality will force us to find radically new approaches in coping with scarcity and foster resource efficiency. This mindset will also help shaping sustainable life on Earth.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Katharina Brinkert at work.

    Katharina Brinkert

    “The exploration of space and protection of Earth go hand-in hand: the complementary approach of the Martian Mindset shows us how much space and Earth science can learn and benefit from each other.”

    © Lukas Klose, University of Bremen

  • Cyprien Verseux

    “The Humans on Mars Initiative is an exciting opportunity to combine my expertise in space biology with that of others in fields far apart – and ultimately, to help make Mars exploration sustainable.”

  • Lutz Mädler

    “The Humans on Mars Mindset requires an engineering vision into a world of unknowns and constrains - not far from what we have on earth, but more extreme and less complex at the same time.”

    © Jonas Ginter
  • Frank Kirchner next to a robot on Moon like surface

    Frank Kirchner

    “Humans on Mars tackles an extremely important challenge with respect to robotics research, it has the potential to achieve mayor breakthrough towards robots that are fit for everyday life.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Daniel Meyer

    Daniel Meyer

    “The unique boundary conditions on Mars require to re-think manufacturing in a multi-disciplinary approach which will lead to exciting developments also applicable to the challenges on Earth.”

    © Leibniz-IWT
  • Researcher Christiane Heinecke.

    Christiane Heinicke

    “We set out to find ground-breakingly new answers to sustaining humans on Mars. I love the interdisciplinary challenge and the inevitable implications for our life on Earth.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Professor Kirsten Tracht at work.

    Kirsten Tracht

    “Mars habitat planning enables a radical new paradigm of producing with sustainability and full circularity from product design, material sourcing to maintenance and end-of-life.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Marc Avila, speaker of the initiative Humans on Mars.

    Marc Avila

    ”Mars has extremely limited natural resources. Under the premise of scarcity, our cross-disciplinary team researches how to sustain humans on Mars and applies the lessons learnt to Earth.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier

Humans on Mars

Wir untersuchen Wege zu einer nachhaltigen, menschlichen Erkundung des Mars in sieben vom Land Bremen geförderten Projekten. Die Projekte konzentrieren sich auf menschliche Aspekte, wie die Interaktion und Kommunikation zwischen Menschen und gemischten Mensch-Maschine-Teams, auf Habitate und Lebenserhaltungssysteme sowie auf die verantwortungsvolle Gewinnung lokaler Ressourcen für die In-situ-Produktion von Verbrauchsmaterialien und Ersatzteilen.

 

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News and activities

© Annemarie Popp, Universität Bremen
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Bürgermeister Bovenschulte hat Universität Bremen besucht

Im Fokus des Besuches stand unter anderem das neu beantragte Exzellenzcluster „Die Marsperspektive: Ressourcenknappheit als Grundlage eines Paradigmas der Nachhaltigkeit“ des Wissenschaftsschwerpunkts Materialwissenschaften und ihre Technologien.

Jutta Günther, Kathrin Moosdorf, Kirsten Tracht, Andreas Bovenschulte, Marc Avila, Kristina Vogt und Sarah Ryglewski.
© ZARM, Universität Bremen

Space Tech Expo 2024

Vom 19. bis 21. November präsentierte die Initiative „Humans on Mars“ nicht nur ihre eigenen Forschungsthemen, sondern befasste sich in diesem Jahr auch mit dem im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder eingereichten Clusterantrag.

Abootaleb Safdari an seinem Vortragsabend in der Bar Tequila, vor dem Publikum.
© Science goes Public, WFB

Science goes Public - Roboter verdienen einen Platz am Tisch

Beobachtungen aus der Mars-Exploration von Dr. Abootaleb Safdari, der am 7. November zu Gast in der Programmreihe war.

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Publication highlights

Resource_Efficiency
© The Authors, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Resource-efficiency of cyanobacterium production on Mars: Assessment and paths forward

Tiago P. Ramalho, Vincent Baumgartner, Nils Kunst, David Rodrigues, Emma Bohuon, Basile Leroy, Guillaume Pillot, Christiane Heinicke, Sven Kerzenmacher, Marc Avila, Cyprien Verseux

Algal Research 84 (2024): 103801

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2024.103801

Space agencies and private companies…

Dependence of cyanobacterium growth and Mars-specific photobioreactor mass on total pressure, pN2 and pCO2 pic
© 2024, The Author(s)

Dependence of cyanobacterium growth and Mars-specific photobioreactor mass on total pressure, pN₂ and pCO₂

Cyprien Verseux, Tiago P. Ramalho, Emma Bohuon, Nils Kunst, Viktoria Lang, Christiane Heinicke 

npj Microgravity 10 (2024): 101

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-024-00440-1

In situ resource utilization systems based on cyanobacteria could support the sustainability of crewed missions to Mars.…

Effect_of_atmospheric
© 2024, The Authors

Effects of atmospheric pressure, and of the partial pressures of CO2 and N2, on the growth rates of Anabaena sp. PCC 7938: Assessment and implications for cyanobacterium cultivation on Mars

Cyprien Verseux, Tiago Ramalho, Emma Bohuon, Nils Kunst, Viktoria Lang, Christiane Heinicke

npj Microgravity  (2024) 

doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4348078/v1

In situ resource utilization systems based on cyanobacteria could support the sustainability of crewed missions to Mars. However, their…

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