Pack for a day trip to mars!

[KrazyHorse]

I would also insulate the soles of the boots with significant rubber sole to minimize conduction heat loss when standing. I would also not recommend lying down or sitting, as the insulation on the back and butt would necessarily be less and the surface area much larger. The heating unit might have difficulty keeping up with the demand if you did that.

[KrazyHorse]

Mars is not a very survivable environment. It's barely less hostile than the moon (only positive mars has over moon is that the minimal martian atmosphere does mediate temperature extremes slightly and cuts down slightly on UV radiation. Plus it's further from sun so radiation in general lower.

[Pax]

So can a drysuit used for arctic diving be suitable?

http://www.diverescueintl.com/catalog.html

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Pax
No moon boots available. Would a wet suit or dry suit be any help? How about a gas mask that filters out CO2?

but they're so nice and warm

[Pax]

Originally posted by Gangerolf


but they're so nice and warm

I'm sorry Gangerolf. Those moon boots are acceptable.

[Boris Godunov]

Um, why not just wear a damned space suit?

[chequita guevara]

Because Pax said we couldn't. Course, without some kind of container to keep the breathable air, temperature, and pressure safe, you die. Either you're in a bubble, a vehicle, or a space suit or you don't go until after massive terraforming.

[Pax]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Um, why not just wear a damned space suit?

1. Cost too much.
2. Too bulky.
3. Not sexy.
4. Over engineered.
5. Not the point of this thread.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Surface temperature (mean) -55°C (-67°F)
Surface temperature (equat. summer day) 27°C (80°F)
Surface temperature (polar winter night) -133°C (-207°F)

quite clement really

Source?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Pax

1. Cost too much.
2. Too bulky.
3. Not sexy.
4. Over engineered.
5. Not the point of this thread.

What would you need to surivie on the Moon? No space suit allowed! Mars is too hostile not to be in a space suit, period, end of thread.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Pax
1. Cost too much.
2. Too bulky.
3. Not sexy.
4. Over engineered.
5. Not the point of this thread.

All of these, except 5, are rendered moot by the fact that the alternative is to build something on your own that will likely ultimately cost just as much, be just as bulky, and just as unsexy as the premade, handy-dandy spacesuit. And what do you mean by 4? How is a spacesuit "overengineered?"

[Pax]

The question is can we man survive on the most hospitable place outside earth with equipment that is commercially available and pretty much mass produced.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
To survive on mars for a day I would:

1) Get a battery powered heater and warm clothes
2) Get a bunch of oxygen cylinders and a breathing mask
3) Get a bunch of thick (0.2 cm or so?) rubber or synthetic rubber material and build some sort of airtight tent big enough to hold me. You also need a valve to bleed off waste gases (otherwise the pressure would build up too much)
4) Hope like hell I'd sealed it properly

Gotta love those hamster balls!

[Sava]

I'd wear a space suit

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Pax
The question is can we man survive on the most hospitable place outside earth with equipment that is commercially available and pretty much mass produced.

I gave you your answer at the begining of the thread. Without a space suit, you die.