the Netherlands Organization March One is behind the project. The over 1,000 candidates were selected from some 200,000 who had expressed a desire to travel, knowing that they can never return.
There are in fact talking about a one-way trip. The journey will be too expensive and difficult that it can be talk of a return journey.
24 people will be traveling
Friday announced March One first stage of the selection process is complete. They will now proceed with the work that will bring 24 people to be sent off into six groups.
Candidates will now proceed to further testing, getting a tough time, says March Ones medical chief Norbert Kraft.
– There is talk about harsh exercises, many of them in groups, participants’ physical and emotional strength put to the test, says he.
Reality Program
project is strongly linked to an interactive reality television program which will help to find sponsors, and where the public has a decisive say in the decision about who finally get to travel.
launch is scheduled to begin in 2024. March voyagers will use about half a year to cover the 55 million kilograms meters from the Earth to the Red Planet.
March One recently announced that the organization has signed an agreement with U.S. industrial group Lockheed Martin for the construction of the prototype to a lander for Mars missions, to be sent on an unmanned test beginning in 2018.
140 degrees below zero
Mars is the outermost of the four inner terrestrial planets. It uses 687 days of going around the sun, and the minimum distance from Earth varies between 56 and 103 million kilometers.
atmospheric pressure is only one-hundredth of the Earth and the atmosphere contains about. 95 percent CO 2 . At the equator varies surface temperature from minus 90 degrees at night to 25 degrees during the day. At the poles can winter temperatures go down to minus 140 degrees. The wind speed can reach over 100 km / h and stir up dust clouds that obscure most of the planet.
The reddish color is due reddish sand on the surface. Mars has two known moons, Phobos and Deimos, both discovered in 1877.
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