What Would Your Life on Mars Actually Look Like?

What would a normal day of your life on Mars actually be like? Not the movie version with glass domes and little rovers. The real one, built from what NASA's rovers, the space station and a year-long fake Mars house have taught us. In this video you'll find out: Why you can only leave for Mars about once every 26 months The four things on Mars trying to kill you at the same time Why your spit would boil if you took your helmet off Why a Mars day is 39 minutes longer, and what that did to NASA's engineers How you'd get food, water and air on a planet with none to spare What the sky, the sunset and Earth look like from the surface Why most days you probably wouldn't go outside at all TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Your normal morning, moved to Mars 00:46 Mars tries to kill you four ways 00:53 Getting there: 7 months in a metal can 01:38 Killer 1: the air 02:07 Killer 2: the cold 02:34 Killer 3: radiation 03:06 Killer 4: the ground 03:44 Your alarm on a 24h 39m day 04:13 Breakfast on Mars 04:44 Water from ice (and from sweat) 05:05 Making air with MOXIE 05:38 Stepping outside 06:49 Calling home 07:08 The real answer 08:13 What nobody knows yet 08:49 Everything you now know Sources include NASA's Perseverance, Curiosity, Phoenix and Opportunity missions, the CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha habitat study, the Mars-500 isolation study, and Wieger Wamelink's Mars soil experiments. #mars #space #science