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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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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.

Armin Dekorsy in einer Bar.
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Science goes Public – 6G wird ab 2030 weltweit zur Verfügung stehen

Was bedeutet dies für unseren Alltag? Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armin Dekorsy war am 17. Oktober im Gastfeld zu Besuch.

Daniel Meyer im Labor.
© Patrick Pollmeier/Universität Bremen

Materialforschung für Erde und Mars: Wie Daniel Meyer Bauteile widerstandsfähiger macht

Daniel Meyer fand seinen Weg von der Biologie zur Produktionstechnik eher zufällig. Heute erforscht er, wie sich Metalloberflächen durch gezielte Bearbeitung verbessern lassen – Wissen, das nun sogar für die Marsforschung der Uni Bremen wichtig wird.

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Publication highlights

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© 2024 The Authors, CC BY 4.0

Pick-and-eat space crop production flight testing on the International Space Station

Jess M. Bunchek, Mary E. Hummerick, LaShelle E. Spencer, Matthew W. Romeyn, Millennia Young, Robert C. Morrow, Cary A. Mitchell, Grace L. Douglas, Raymond M. Wheeler, Gioia D. Massa

Journal of Plant Interactions 19 (2024): 2292220

doi: 10.1080/17429145.2023.2292220

Fresh, nutritious, palatable…

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Experimental study to characterize water contaminated by lunar dust

Rieke Freer, Victoria Pesch,  Paul Zabel

Frontiers in Space Technologies  5 (2024) : 1366591

doi: 10.3389/frspt.2024.1366591

The establishment of a permanent lunar base is the goal of several space missions, such as NASA's Artemis program. The feasibility of a lunar base is highly dependent on…

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Comparative study of bioanodes for microbial electrolysis cells operation in anaerobic digester conditions

Simone Colantoni, Óscar Santiago, Janek R. Weiler, Melanie T. Knoll, Christian J. Lapp, Johannes Gescher, Sven Kerzenmacher

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 12 (2024): 113071  

doi: 10.1016/j.jece.2024.113071

Integrating microbial electrolysis cells (MEC) with anaerobic digestion…

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