Ich habe die Gefahren auf dem Mars erforscht und diejenige, die mich am meisten überrascht hat, war statische Elektrizität.
Marsstaub ist feiner als Talkumpuder und es gibt keine Feuchtigkeit, die eine Ladung erden könnte. Nach ein paar Stunden Gehen trägt der Anzug genug statische Aufladung, um einen Bogen von mehreren Zentimetern zu erzeugen. Berühren Sie jede Metalloberfläche und jedes elektronische System führt sofort zu einem Kurzschluss.
Sauerstoffregulierung, Heizung und Kommunikation sind alle ausgefallen, was zum Tod von a führt
Türknauf.
Welche anderen übersehenen Gefahren würden Ihrer Meinung nach Astronauten überraschen?
Bearbeiten: Vielen Dank an alle für eure Antworten. Ich habe so viele Kommentare erhalten, dass ich nicht auf jeden antworten konnte. Es gab einige interessante Ideen, aber eines möchte ich fragen: Was ist mit allen und der spanischen Inquisition los? Fehlt da etwas? Sagen Sie es mir bitte.
Es gab einige interessante Ideen wie Alter und Ertrinken und ich werde die Außerirdischen nicht vergessen. Tatsächlich ist ein Ertrinken möglich, aber aufgrund einer Fehlfunktion des Anzugs. Außerdem erwähnte jemand kleine Weltraumfelsen und das ist Mikrometeorit und es ist eine Möglichkeit
Eine Knöchelverstauchung ist etwas banal, aber eine einfache Sache, wenn sie übersehen wird, kann zum Tod führen, und Pneumokoniose ist interessant.
Außerdem fragte jemand, wie die Rover funktionieren. Die NASA hat dieses Problem durch die Installation einer robusten elektrischen Erdung gelöst
Nur zur Kenntnisnahme: Ich habe gefragt, weil ich an einem YouTube-Video über unerwartete Todesfälle und Dinge arbeite, gegen die wir auf dem Mars überleben können, um zu sehen, ob wir ihn terraformieren können oder nicht, aber ja, die Dinge sind düster, aber nicht unmöglich. Wir würden uns über Ihr Feedback freuen, falls jemand Zeit hat, und vielen Dank für die Ideen:
https://youtube.com/shorts/JLpqZWfJXk4
Abschließend zu diesem Kommentar: "Es würde zu einer nuklearen Apokalypse auf der Erde kommen, wie bei allem, was verschwunden und tot ist, und es wäre immer noch eine bessere Umgebung für den Versuch, die Menschheit neu zu starten, als der Mars."obwohl es wahr ist, hat dies die Menschheit nicht davon abgehalten, immer nach Möglichkeiten zu streben, und es ist immer gut zu träumen.
Vielen Dank an alle, das freut mich sehr
What's the most unexpected way Mars could kill an astronaut?
byu/Ahmeuad inspace
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Tripping over something we sent there.
I wonder if the atmosphere would allow dry quicksand or similar to form. I know they considered it a danger for the moon landings.
Mars could gain sentience and just straight up eat someone.
That would be pretty unexpected.
Now keep in min d you said unexpected ok, not scientifically likely:
An enzyme or protein survived in Mars Ice and it turns out to be a prion type that kills any human exposed to it.
Doesn’t have to be fast.
More realistically: Meteor. one hit to the habitat or even to the suit.
Abdominal puncture by a radar dish blown over during a wind storm.
Shot by a North Korean who landed months before you did.
Is The Spanish Inquisition an acceptable answer?
Mental problems are probably going to be a huge issue if we ever send humans to Mars for prolonged amount of time, and I think people are underestimating how big and serious issue it’s going to be.
For example, take a look at research stations in Antarctica. They are also remote outposts in inhospitable environment where small teams of trained professionals have to live and work in confined environments for months at a time. And there have been already a lot of incidents where someone simply snapped and lost their mind. Like one scientist who stabbed his colleague with a knife because he kept telling him spoilers for books he was reading.
And Antarctica is here on Earth, and nothing compared to what they will have to through on Mars. And consequences of someone snapping are bigger – like if someone losts their mind and depressurized module or sabotages life support system. Any Mars mission will require the strictest mental screening in history, and probably a bunch of psychologists and psychiatrists among the crew.
*EDIT, 3 hours later: I got the chemistry backwards. Perchlorates are oxidizers, not oxidisable fuel. So if something else was burning, they would give up oxygen to that reaction, but they won’t burn suddenly themselves.*
*So perchlorates are still toxic to humans when ingested, but no exciting reactions.*
Martian regolith has perchlorate compounds, at least in some locations.
Perchlorates are crazy good oxidizers; we use them as oxidizers in fireworks and rocket fuel.
~~There’s potential for a lot of weird chemical reactions if perchlorates get through the airlock into the oxygen-abundant astronaut habitat module.~~
~~So I’m going with someone’s spacesuit catches fire because there’s perchlorate-rich dust ground into crevices on it, and then the abundant static electricity makes a spark while they’re coming back inside.~~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate?wprov=sfla1
A giant billboard with Elon Musks picture falls down and impales you.
Shark attack with a ball peen hammer.
It’s not overlooked, but the idea that the safest time to go to Mars is during solar maximum is just unsettling. You swap higher background radiation for lower but with the risk of a crazy high event. Not even sure how much you can get up there to actually shield due to weight.
Like if he tripped and fell down the hill. His girlfriend reaching for him as he fell. He rolls alot, then smashes his glass faceplate against a rock. And slowly his eyes popped out of his head from the vacuum. Read that in a movie… I cant totally recall the name thou.
Because of the thin atmosphere, freezing to death is not likely on Mars. At an average temp of -70F, the lack of atmosphere means radiating heat away will be a challenge and astronauts would be in far more danger of dying from heat stroke at -70F than hypothermia.
A sprained ankle. Out on a time limited walk, slip on the terrain and die of oxygen depletion before help arrives. It’s not dramatic, nefarious, or anything really. Just a reality of life in a hostile environment.
Related to the dust…the risk of **pneumoconiosis**.
There are a number of lung diseases that stem from breathing in dust and other fine particulates.
Mars dust is very fine and very sharp. It WILL corrode and abrade every gasket and seal in every door and lock and pump. It WILL eventually get into the habs, where the astronauts WILL be breathing it in.
Because it is so fine and dry, and the gravity is low, it will remain airborne until it is filtered or breathed in. There it will inflame and abrade the lungs of the crew.
We will be sending our brightest and bravest up to die of diseases more attributed to a Victorian coal miner.
I feel like drowning would be pretty unexpected.
I read an opinion from an expert a couple of years ago that there could be a nuclear apocalypse on Earth, as in everything gone and dead, and it would still be a better environment to try to restart humankind than Mars.
Popping in to existence as a whale several miles above the surface and plummeting to your death.
Not just unexpected, but downright Improbable.
Good luck with your novel and/or screenplay.
There was a plot point in an earlier book, „Mars“ by Ben Bova where a mysterious illness started affecting the ground crew. It was determined to be >!scurvy after vitamin C was leeched out of the vitamin pills from a high oxygen event in the aftermath of a breached dome incident.!<
Given that Mars is high risk I’d say one death in particular would be quite unexpected:
Old age.
Divine intervention. Everyone is expecting the planet Mars to try and kill them. No one is prepared for Mars, the Roman god of war, to smite them.
Pie in the face. No one saw that coming.
A while back, an astronaut on a space-walk had some leak/condensation in their helmet, they barely got back inside before their eyes were covered. Had it gotten to their nose and mouth, they may have drowned inside of their spacesuit.
Water behaves weirdly in lower Gs. It only took a cup or two of water in the helmet to become an emergency.
An American engineer accidentally uses feet instead of meters in a navigation program and you crash land
Mars has earthquakes! Or more accurately, Marsquakes.
I’m imagining one shaking things up enough that the rocket’s weight causes soil to subside and the rocket ends up leaning at a bad angle, trapping everyone on the surface due to the rocket not being able to launch.
The most unexpected way for Mars to kill someone would be old age.