{"id":10140,"date":"2016-09-27T06:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2016-09-27T06:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:44:37","slug":"rice-planetary-geophysicist-available-to-discuss-europa-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/rice-planetary-geophysicist-available-to-discuss-europa-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon and Mars on plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Air_Zero-g_large\"<\/a>Who wouldn\u2019t want to run an experiment in lunar or martian gravity? ESA is offering European researchers the chance to test their theories on aircraft flights that offer 20 seconds of reduced gravity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPartial-gravity flights are rare and offer a unique opportunity to conduct research in conditions that have only been reproduced a handful of times,\u201d notes ESA\u2019s head of human research, Jennifer Ngo-Anh.<\/span><\/p>\n

ESA often conducts \u2018parabolic\u2019 flights using a refitted Airbus A310 that flies up and down on a rollercoaster ride. At the top of the curve the passengers and experiments experience reduced gravity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Walking on Mars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Commonly, the pilots climb at 45\u00b0 to offer zero-gravity for 20 seconds at a time. By adjusting the angle, the pilots can simulate other gravity levels \u2013 from the Moon\u2019s one sixth of what we feel on Earth to a martian one third of Earth\u2019s gravity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parabolic flights are useful for scientific and technology researchers, offering the unique opportunity to control experiments in reduced gravity with humans as test subjects.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to being the only way to test experiments in gravity levels found on the Moon and Mars, parabolic flights that simulate reduced gravity are exciting for everyone involved and they offer more experiment time than \u2018normal microgravity\u2019 flights,\u201d says Jennifer. \u201cWe are looking forward to a great mix of experiments from around the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you walk on Mars?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Researchers from previous experiments run on reduced-gravity parabolic flights have had their results published in the prestigious\u00a0Nature<\/i>magazine. A novel experiment investigated how astronauts would walk on Mars \u2013 the ideal walking speed turns out to be around half the speed on Earth \u2013 important information for planning missions to the Red Planet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPartial-gravity flights are rare and offer a unique opportunity to conduct research in conditions that have only been reproduced a handful of times,\u201d notes ESA\u2019s head of human research, Jennifer Ngo-Anh.<\/p>\n

ESA often conducts \u2018parabolic\u2019 flights using a refitted Airbus A310 that flies up and down on a rollercoaster ride. At the top of the curve the passengers and experiments experience reduced gravity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",305,203,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/How_will_we_walk_on_Mars_medium.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}