<story><title>NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars</title><url>https://www.theblaze.com/news/nasa-is-looking-for-people-who-want-to-spend-a-year-simulating-a-mission-on-mars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Why does it need to be windowless? You could have windows looking out at arid landscapes of Mars. You&amp;#x27;d see sunsets, sunrises, highnoon, etc. You could even see the local &amp;quot;weather&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>hereforphone</author><text>Not being able to go to your favorite cafe &amp;#x2F; restaurant as frequently != being confined in a windowless structure</text></item><item><author>napier</author><text>NASA missed an opportunity not conducting the study over the last 15 months. They could have recruited hundreds of millions of study participants with no additional costs or fundamental behavior alterations required.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>Because there is no possibility of sending windows to Mars for a hypothetical first base there. It would be far too expensive, and given the already extreme difficulty of such a mission, it would be a huge luxury.</text></comment>
<story><title>NASA is looking for people who want to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars</title><url>https://www.theblaze.com/news/nasa-is-looking-for-people-who-want-to-spend-a-year-simulating-a-mission-on-mars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Why does it need to be windowless? You could have windows looking out at arid landscapes of Mars. You&amp;#x27;d see sunsets, sunrises, highnoon, etc. You could even see the local &amp;quot;weather&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>hereforphone</author><text>Not being able to go to your favorite cafe &amp;#x2F; restaurant as frequently != being confined in a windowless structure</text></item><item><author>napier</author><text>NASA missed an opportunity not conducting the study over the last 15 months. They could have recruited hundreds of millions of study participants with no additional costs or fundamental behavior alterations required.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comrh</author><text>In Kim Stanley Robinson&amp;#x27;s Red Mars the first settlements on Mars are underground and windowless to protect from radiation iirc.</text></comment>