谁拥有适合登陆火星的"正确资质" This is Scientific American - 60 - Second Science . I ' m Christopher Intagliata . ( Houston , Tranquility Base here . The Eagle has landed .
Roger , Tranquility . We copy you on the ground . You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue . We ' re breathing again . Thanks a lot . )
Fifty years ago this July , when Apollo 11 made its historic landing on the moon , Houston heard the news almost instantaneously , within a second or so .
That won ' t be the case for human astronauts exploring Mars , where the one - way delay in communications could be anywhere from four to 24 minutes .
Which will make it nearly impossible to carry on a normal conversation . The result is that Martian astronauts will need to operate with a degree of autonomy space travelers have never had .
Leslie DeChurch , a professor of communication and psychology at Northwestern University , has studied the psychology and collective intelligence of simulated astronaut teams here on Earth .
Not only did they live in isolation and confinement in an analogue , but they spent approximately 30 percent of their time experiencing extreme communication delay .
Meaning between 30 seconds and five minutes one way was the fastest they could have any communication go beyond just the other three crew members that were inside their habitat . She spoke February 17 th at a session called Building a Winning Team for Missions to Mars , at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington , D . C .
The nine teams we studied all showed improvement on what we would call behavioral dimensions of collective performance . That is their ability to time , coordinate , and sequence psychomotor activities improved .
But let ' s talk about the bad news . As the teams remained in isolation and confinement for longer periods of time ,
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