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The Complete Surviving Mars Guide - Tourism Update

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Zinegata said: b) All tourists are gamblers, and want luxury. So having a relatively prosperous colony that can support hotels and casinos is necessary to keep their satisfaction decent. For reference, you can't build hotels at the start - you need to the Smart home tech. Likewise the Low G entertainment building requires the medium dome tech. Click to expand...

Zinegata said: c) Safaris Rover are available from the start of the game... if you don't load from an existing save that pre-dates the update (Yet another bug). Trouble is, I haven't actually seen a tourist use one (Yet another bug). Click to expand...

• May 17, 2021

Surviving Mars Tourism Update: New Features, Changes, and More

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Surviving Mars developer, Haemimont Games, recently released a new update that added new features and made some changes to the game. The RC Safari is the latest addition introduced by the free tourism update. This feature lets players create sightseeing tours for tourists visiting your colony. You can order it from Earth or build it yourself via a research type. To provide better services, new buildings like Hotel and Low-G Amusement Park are now available, thanks to the update, all of which can help increase their satisfaction level.

A small adjustment has been applied to the Tourist Trap challenge, along with 20 tourist applications spawned at the start of the challenge.

Surviving Mars Tourism Update

Changes to Tourists

• Tourists have a new Satisfaction stat, which tracks how much each tourist is enjoying their holiday.
• Tourists no longer pay 10M funding upon arrival. Instead, they pay funds when departing from Mars based on how much they liked their holiday, shown in the Satisfaction stat, rated between 1 and 5 stars.
• Tourists now board any nearby rocket when they are looking to go home (instead of only boarding rockets that just landed).

New Feature: RC Safari

• The new RC Safari allows you to create sightseeing tours around your colony for tourists to enjoy.
• Set waypoints near domes, wonders, vistas, rock formations, and many other sights to increase the satisfaction bonus tourists get from the safari.
• Order the new RC Safari from earth, or complete the Rover Printing research to build these yourself.

New Tourist Buildings

• Hotel: Provide tourists a luxurious place to stay on Mars; spending the night increases their Satisfaction. Hotels can be built after completing the Smart Homes research.
• Low-G Amusement Park: Provide tourists with the best ways to experience the low gravity environment. Visiting tourists get an extra bonus to their Satisfaction.

Other changes

• Adjusted the deadlines for the Tourist Trap challenge, which now also gives 20 tourist applicants at the start.

In-Dome Building Pack CCP

• Smart Apartments: Apartments that provide the same luxuries as smart homes.
• Senior Residence: A lovely place for your senior residents to retire.
• Large Nursery: A larger version of the nursery, able to house more children.
• Medical Post: For when you need a smaller infirmary in the area.
• Hospital: A larger, more relaxing version of the infirmary. It also comes with the exclusive Remote Medic upgrade, which reduces the number of colonists required per shift.
• Security Post: A more compact version of the Security Station.
• TV Studio Workshop: A new workshop building that also generates funding.
• School Spire: Build the school as a spire building. It comes with the exclusive Superior Education upgrade, which has a small change to give the Genius trait.
• 2 new colony logos: Colonization Effort, Red Target

You can read more about the update here.

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Surviving Mars Returns with Free Tourism Update and Content Creator Pack, Surpasses 5 Million Players -- Launching March 15th

Abstraction takes over development of the survival colony builder, announces plans for new expansion coming later this year

STOCKHOLM – March 13, 2021 – Paradox Interactive announced today that development has resumed on Surviving Mars, the survival colony builder set on the Red Planet, under Abstraction .   Additionally, the company revealed that Surviving Mars has surpassed 5 million players in the lifetime of the game across all platforms. To Celebrate the return to Mars, Paradox will launch an In-Dome Buildings Pack and a free Tourism Update available to all Surviving Mars players this Monday, March 15.

Check out the return to Surviving Mars trailer here: https://youtu.be/1ioVvRJAlyw

The Tourism Update is free for all Surviving Mars players and revamps tourists, introduces a RC Safari, adds buildings, and more. With this update, players can expect to see some of their most-requested tourism features, such as Holiday Experience rating rewards and consequences.

Tourism Update Key Features:

Happy Holidays - Tourists will now rate their stay in your colony to determine their Holiday Experience Rating. That rating will determine what rewards, funds, and additional tourist applicants players will receive. 

Movin On Up - Hotels can be built after completing the Smart Homes research to increase tourist comfort and raise satisfaction. Players can also build a Low-G Amusement Park that adds a boost to each tourists’ Satisfaction stat.

Rover Safaris - Set waypoints at places of interest and let tourists go sightseeing around your colony for increased satisfaction. Players can order an RC Safari from Earth, or build it on their own after completing the Rover Printing research project.

Developed in partnership with long-time community modder Silva , the In-Dome Buildings Pack continues Paradox’s commitment to supporting outstanding content creators in its community. This content creator pack introduces 8 buildings and a host of technical additions to expand housing and community options. The In-Dome Buildings Content Creator Pack can be purchased for a suggested retail price of $4.99 USD/€4.99 Eur/£3.99 GBP on Steam, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and other online retailers.

Check out the In-Dome Buildings Pack trailer here: https://youtu.be/whQI4rqWz0o

The In-Dome Buildings Pack Includes:

Habitats for Humanity

Smart Apartments (Habitats, Large)

Seniors Residence (Habitats, Medium)

Large Nursery (Habitats, Large)

Dome Sweet Dome

Medical Post (Dome Services, Small)

Security Post (Dome Services, Small)

Hospital (Dome Services, Large)

TV Studio Workshop (Dome Services, Large)

School Spire (Dome Spires, Spire)

“Since the launch of Surviving Mars: Green Planet , our players have been asking what’s next for Surviving Mars . The Tourism Update is just the beginning. The game is in good hands with Abstraction, they’re a team of veteran developers with years of experience making AAA titles and are passionate about Surviving Mars ,” Magnus Lysell, Product Manager for Surviving Mars at Paradox Interactive, said. “We’re humbled by the overwhelming support for Surviving Mars . 5 million players is huge and we can’t wait to share what’s next with all of you soon!”

Paradox and Abstraction also revealed that a fully-featured Surviving Mars expansion is in the works and will launch sometime later in 2021.

The first game in Paradox’s Surviving franchise , Surviving Mars tasks players with building a colony capable of sustaining human life on the Red Planet’s surface. Surviving Mars is currently free-to-play on the Epic Games Store until March 18. Xbox is hosting a PDX Insider Promo sale today only , where players can get the Surviving Franchise bundle ( Surviving Mars and Surviving the Aftermath ) and the Surviving Mars Season Pass for 50% off retail price. Additionally, Xbox players can get the Surviving Mars Digital Deluxe Edition at a 70% discount during the PDX Insider promotion.

Surviving Mars is available on PC , Xbox One , and PlayStation 4 . For more information about Surviving Mars , visit the Paradox Store page , or check it out on Twitter and Facebook .

Surviving Mars returns with a new developer, a free update and more DLC

Life on Mars.

After a couple of years with no notable updates, Surviving Mars has unexpectedly sprung back to life, with the red planet under new management. Abstraction has taken the reins from Haemimont Games, and with the change comes a new update, DLC and expansion plans. Mars is getting busy again.

While the next game in the Surviving series is already out, at least in early access, there's definitely still life on Mars. Paradox announced that more than 5 million people have attempted to tame the hostile world, and Mars is obviously still very much in the public consciousness.

The free update is coming very soon: you'll be able to create a bustling tourist industry on Mars from Monday. The Tourism Update will make it so that tourists now rate their holiday experience, and to get them to give you a high score you can construct hotels, low-G amusement parks and customisable RC safaris.

Magnus Lysell, Paradox product manager, tells me that "the Surviving Mars community has expressed a strong interest in new content focused on further exploring Mars and expanding building options." Things like rover safaris and the holiday ratings have been highly-requested, apparently, and Lysell hopes the feedback will give the team even more ideas for future additions.

Housing is also getting some love. Paradox and Abstraction have teamed up with modder Silva to create some dome DLC that introduces eight new buildings, along with more housing and community options. The In-Dome Buildings Pack also launches on Monday and can be yours for £3.99/$4.99.

The imminent update "is just the beginning" for the next stage of Surviving Mars, according to Lysell. Another full expansion is on the docket for this year, though its contents are a mystery for now.

"Abstraction has a vision for the content they are making, and planning, for Surviving Mars," says Lysell. "While we can’t go into specifics about what's next for Surviving Mars, we have ambitious plans for the game's future. Abstraction's vision is one we feel players will love and we will continue investing in more content as long as the community likes what they are playing."

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I've yet to really click with Surviving the Aftermath , but Surviving Mars has always been great. It did seem like there was more than could be mined from Mars, so I was disappointed to see development stop after 2019's Green Planet expansion. It's a shame the original team isn't involved with the next phase, but Abstraction has a lot of experience with DLC and being brought on to support games. Hopefully it will be up to the task. 

As for crossovers between the pair of survivalists, nothing is being planned at the moment. Lysell says the teams communicate and share ideas, but the two games are otherwise entirely separate.

Conveniently, Surviving Mars is also free on the Epic Games Store until March 18.

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Surviving mars development resumes with free tourism update, new expansion coming in 2021.

Publisher Paradox Interactive has announced that colony sim Surviving Mars is resuming development this year. Dutch studio Abstraction – known for its support work on titles like Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Hotline Miami 2 – will take over from original developer Haemimont Games, working on a new expansion that’s set to release later in 2021.

The publisher also revealed that 5 million players have landed on the Red Planet since Surviving Mars launched back in 2018. To celebrate this occasion, a free Tourism Update and paid In-Dome Buildings Pack DLC will release on March 15.

Surviving Mars’ free Tourism Update revamps tourists, enabling them to rate their stay in your colony. The newly added Holiday Experience Rating sounds like something you’ll want to keep track of, as it determines the rewards, funds, and available tourist applicants that your colony receives.

Hotels, unlocked researching Smart Homes, increase tourists’ satisfaction and comfort while the Low-G Amusement Park building also increases the chances of your guests leaving your new home with a positive impression. Additionally, the new RC Safari vehicle lets you take your guests on guided tours by placing waypoints at different points of interest around your chunk of the Red Planet.

The In-Dome Buildings Pack DLC, developed in partnership with modder Silva, introduces 8 new buildings alongside “a host of technical additions to expand housing and community options” , for the price of £3.99 or your regional equivalent. Here are its new buildings, as detailed by the publisher:

Habitats for Humanity

• Smart Apartments (Habitats, Large)
• Seniors Residence (Habitats, Medium)
• Large Nursery (Habitats, Large)

Dome Sweet Dome

• Medical Post (Dome Services, Small)
• Security Post (Dome Services, Small)
• Hospital (Dome Services, Large)
• TV Studio Workshop (Dome Services, Large)
• School Spire (Dome Spires, Spire)

There, sadly, aren’t any details about Surviving Mars’ upcoming expansion just yet, although we expect to learn more over the coming months. If you’ve yet to pick up the colony sim, you can actually get it for free until March 18 on the Epic Games Store .

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Surviving Mars' Newest Update Adds Tourism Ratings, New Buildings And More

Surviving Mars is continuing development with its new Tourism Update under Abstraction's direction. Here's everything included in the update.

March 15 saw the sudden release of an update to Paradox Interactive's micromanagement city building game Surviving Mars. Titled the Tourism Update, this free upgrade was announced along with the knowledge that the indie game has surpassed five million players. The update helps to enhance the way tourists work in Surviving Mars while adding a few fun, new features to accompany them.

Many updates come out too late , but this unexpected and welcome free DLC content was added not only to announce hitting five million players. It also marked a return to development of the game under new management at Abstraction. Magnus Lysell, the product manager for Surviving Mars , had a lot of good things to say about the change over. Lysell noted that "since the launch of Surviving Mars: Green Planet , our players have been asking what's next for Surviving Mars . The Tourism Update is just the beginning. The game is in good hands with Abstraction, they're a team of veteran developers with years of experience making AAA titles and are passionate about Surviving Mars ." The Tourism Update is proof of this experience and passion.

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The new update helps to enhance a pre-existing concept already found in the game, showing that the new developers are communicating with their fanbase and working on familiar ideas. Tourists used to be colonists that would come to Mars for a vacation (an out of this world experience!), then leave after a while. They would generate a little bit of revenue when they arrive, but after that they were simply taking up space. When they left they would generate two more tourist applicants. Now with the new update, tourists have a greater impact on the game. Tourists still travel to and from Mars and leave a paycheck behind, but now the amount left can be influenced by how much fun they had on their trip.

Tourists can now rate their stay between one to five stars, like an interstellar Yelp. Their enjoyment will be determined by how many amenities their dome has available to them. Just like regular colonists, tourists have a satisfaction meter that can be seen when viewing any dome. The meter will detail how satisfied (or unsatisfied) tourists are in that location.

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In addition to the already established amenities and buildings, there are a few new exciting structures that this update introduces. The Olympus Hotel is a luxury housing building that can be used by either colonists or tourists. Hotels have a switch that can toggle whether it can be used by colonists or only tourists. On one hand, this would mean shipping a lot more tourists to the red planet to justify the space a whole hotel takes up. But on the other hand, it would keep those tourists and their pocket books happy.

Another addition to the game is a Zero-G amusement park. Titled Z-gravity, this building offers satisfaction to tourists and colonists alike. Play, socialization, relaxation, and exercise are all fulfilled by this immense structure but players will have to be careful when placing an amusement park since it takes up ten hex spaces inside the dome. Space inside the domes can be scarce, so it might be worth considering a large dome specializing in tourist amenities.

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In-dome activates aren't the only things added in this update as a new rover is available. The RC Safari will allow tourists to go on a journey, stopping at set locations to show off the marvels of Mars. The player sets a course for the Rover to travel past, strategizing the best route that takes tourists past important buildings, like the moxie or other domes in the area. They are also fascinated by marvelous vistas and rock structures, giving new purpose to the terrain manipulation tab.

The Tourism Update brings new meaning to some dull and outdated concepts, and unlike most DLC , this update is absolutely free. Allowing players to influence how much enjoyment tourists have is just another layer to the multi-managing systems that many Surviving Mars fans love. This update seems to just be the start of good things to come out of Abstraction.

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Colony builder Surviving Mars is back with dome DLC and free tourism update next week

And there's a new expansion due later this year.

Paradox Interactive's colony builder Surviving Mars has resumed development and will expand this Monday, 15th March, with a free new tourism update and the In-Dome Buildings Pack.

Surviving Mars - which challenges players to rejuvenate the wastes of the red planet, eventually transforming the world into a thriving colony of shimmering domes - initially launched in 2018, and received its last major expansion, Green Planet, the following year.

All's been quiet since then, but development has now resumed under the watchful eye of Abstraction, which is taking over from Surviving Mars' original creator Haemimont Games.

The first fruits of Abstraction's labours will arrive in the form a free new update for Xbox One, PS4, and PC this Monday, 15th March, which revamps Surviving Mars tourism systems. Now, tourists will rate their stay on a colony, with the resulting Holiday Experience Rating impacting the rewards, funds, and future tourist applicants players will receive.

New buildable hotels will help boost ratings by increasing tourists' comfort and satisfaction, while a new Low-G Amusement Park delivers an additional satisfaction increase. Lastly, there are new Rover Safaris that can be bought from Earth or printed on Mars, enabling players to set waypoints at places of interest so tourists can go sightseeing and gain yet more satisfaction.

Surviving Mars' free update will be accompanied by the new In-Dome Buildings Content Creator Pack, which includes eight new buildings alongside a "host of technical additions", and will be priced at £3.99/$4.99 USD. Additionally, a full-scale, although still-mysterious, Surviving Mars expansion is scheduled to arrive sometime later this year.

And if you've yet to experience Surviving Mars, it's currently available to download for free on the Epic Games Store, and will remain so until Thursday, 18th March.

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Surviving Mars overhauls tourism, kicking off renewed support

Time to drive tourists round on a rock-seeing safari

After 17 months without a notable patch or new content, Surviving Mars today got back to work with a free update expanding the colony-building sim's tourism systems. As they announced over the weekend , publishers Paradox Interactive have handed Haemimont's game over to another studio to resume development. A new full-on expansion is due later this year, but they started the return small today with the Tourism Update and a wee paid DLC. You can send tourists on sightseeing spacecar tours, for one.

As the name suggests, the Tourism Update is focused on people coming to your colony to coo over how curious spacelife is. Rather than slap down their cash upon arrival, Tourists now have a Satisfaction stat which tracks how much they are enjoying their spacehols, then they pay based on pleasure at the end. This system seems incredibly prone to scamming ("Oh I had just the worst time, I hated seeing another planet, here's a one-star review and five moonbucks") but hey, maybe humanity have become more honest in the future. I'm sure the people currently planning to go to Mars are just swell.

To better entertain the gawkers, you can now build hotels and low-gravity amusement parks, as well as set up an RC Safari. That puts tourists in remote-controlled rovers, which will drive between the waypoints you set to best show off the sights of your colony and Martian landmarks. Or torture them with endless tedium, if you want. Oh look, another rock!

As for the In-Dome Buildings Pack, that's one of those wee content packs made by modders drafted by Paradox to add a little variety, as they've often done with Cities: Skylines. Here "Silva", who's made dozens of Surviving Mars mods , has made some new buildings to make your domes look snazzier. These include a TV studio, smart apartments, a medical post, and a school spire.

See the patch notes for more details on what's in the patch and the DLC. Both are out now.

The DLC is available from Steam and the Epic Games Store for £4/€5/$5. You've still got until Thursday to grab a copy of Surviving Mars free for keepsies from Epic too.

Surviving Mars is now in the hands of Abstraction. They've mostly worked on other people's games, including porting Hotline Miami 1 & 2 to Switch and Xbone and optimising the upcoming Mass Effect trilogy remaster. Paradox have done handovers before, like when they bought Prison Architect. Or on a grander scale, I suppose, when the Surviving series continued with Surviving The Aftermath. The big plan for Abstraction now is to release "a fully-featured Surviving Mars expansion" later this year.

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Co-Development - n collaboration with Paradox Interactive, Abstraction released a fully-featured Surviving Mars expansion called Below and Beyond in 2021. The expansion we presented to Paradox Interactive introduced two new map types: Asteroids and the Underground. The base system required a complete overhaul to make the multiple map feature possible. The two map types in turn provide new forms of gameplay: asteroids focus on resource management and windows of opportunity, while the underground adds areas in which to explore and expand.

This expansion was truly a two-for-one deal and was an extensive undertaking development-wise. In addition to the paid expansion, we delivered two free updates. One larger one, that revitalized the existing tourism systems and a quality-of-life update that resolved many usability issues that had been part of the base game. These updates were, in part, developed alongside the main expansion with Tourism, releasing before Below and Beyond, and the quality-of-life update releasing together with Below and Beyond later in the year.

All updates and the expansion were released on 13 SKUs spanning Xbox, PS4, Mac, Linux, and Windows 11 to name a few. We are happy to have had the opportunity to work with Paradox Interactive on such a co-development project that challenged us creatively as well as technically.

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Surviving Mars is a strategy game that challenges players to colonize and thrive on the red planet. It combines resource management, environmental hazards, and the mysteries of Mars to create a compelling simulation of space colonization. Players must carefully manage supplies, life support, and colonist well-being to build sustainable habitats in an unforgiving environment. Each decision impacts the colony's success, from choosing the location of your settlement to researching futuristic technologies.

With a variety of corporate sponsors and hidden secrets beneath the Martian soil, Surviving Mars offers a unique blend of survival, strategy, and exploration, inviting players to write their own chapter in the saga of humanity's expansion to the stars.

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The tourist stays for 5 Sols and then leaves (on the next rocket to Earth). When the tourist leaves Mars they generate 2 new tourist applicants. [1]

In order for tourist to leave your colony, their dome must be within walking distance of a departing rocket. They will not use a shuttle to travel to a dome within walking distance. Tourists board any nearby rocket when they are looking to go home.

The "Tourist Trap" Challenge requires the player to earn income from tourists in a short period of time to successfully complete the challenge.

• 1 Satisfaction
• 2 RC Safari
• 3 Tourist Buildings
• 4 Tourism Strategy
• 5 Interests
• 6 References

Satisfaction Edit

Tourists have a Satisfaction stat, which tracks how much each tourist is enjoying their holiday, rated between 1 and 5 stars. They pay funds when departing from Mars based on how much they liked their holiday, shown in the Satisfaction stat. [2]

Tourists attempt to leave on a rocket to Earth after spending 5 Sols on Mars vacationing. If they have not been able to leave on a rocket after 10 Sols, they will begin to lose satisfaction .

Satisfaction boosts:

• Morale +10 additional +5 if over 70
• Comfort +20 if over 70; additional +10 at 100
• Amphitheater +2 to +6
• Low-G Amusement Park
• Olympus Hotel
• Party Animal +4 bis +10

Safari up to +25 depending on sights at waypoints

RC Safari Edit

Tourist Buildings Edit

Constructing tourist focused buildings can help to increase the satisfaction stat of your tourists. [3]

The Low-G Amusement Park provides tourists with the best ways to experience the low gravity environment. Visiting tourists get an extra bonus to their Satisfaction.

Tourism Strategy Edit

Tourists are a fairly easy way to acquire funding in the early game before you have rare metals up and running, all they require is housing, food, and time and they allow you to make a fairly decent amount of funding. RC Safari is a cheap way to raise tourists' Satisfaction. In the late game, if you can afford it, setting up a dedicated tourism dome is a viable option for funding that does not require rare metals.

Interests Edit

Tourists always have the interest of Safari and Gambling. Tourists also have the usual interests depending on their specializations and traits.

References Edit

• ↑ Forum: Patch Notes: Da Vinci Update in the "Balance Changes" section - badgr (Community Manager) (2018-08-06)
• ↑ Forum: "Tourism" and "In-Dome Building Pack" CCP patch notes in the "Changes to tourists" section - OliverThulin (Community Ambassador) (2021-03-15)
• ↑ Forum: "Tourism" and "In-Dome Building Pack" CCP patch notes in the "New Tourist Buildings" section - OliverThulin (Community Ambassador) (2021-03-15)
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Ingenuity's travels: New NASA video tracks Mars helicopter's 72 flights

It's like an otherworldly Etch a Sketch.

NASA's history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows.

The video, which was released on Thursday (April 18) by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), shows where Ingenuity went on each of its 72 Red Planet sorties, linking each flight line together in an otherworldly Etch a Sketch creation.

This work of art throws Ingenuity's epic achievements into stark relief, showing the tough terrain the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper negotiated and the impressive distance it traveled — 10.5 miles (17.0 kilometers) in total, about 14 times farther than it was originally expected to fly.

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Ingenuity touched down with NASA's Perseverance rover inside Mars' Jezero Crater in February 2021. The rotorcraft was designed to be a technology demonstrator; its main task was to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars despite the planet's thin atmosphere , which is just 1% as dense as that of Earth at sea level.

Ingenuity aced that prime mission over the course of five flights in the spring of 2021, then embarked upon an extended mission during which it served as a scout for the life-hunting, sample-caching Perseverance.

That extended mission lasted far longer than Ingenuity's handlers could have imagined — 67 sorties over nearly three years. The helicopter's flying days finally came to an end on Jan. 18, when its rotors were damaged during a rough landing.

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Ingenuity may now be stationary, but it's not dead: The rotorcraft is now operating as a weather station and technology testbed , gathering data that could aid future Mars explorers. 

Getting ahold of that data will soon require a physical meetup on the Red Planet, however: Ingenuity relays all of its communications via Perseverance, and the car-sized rover will soon disappear over the Martian horizon, leaving its little partner all alone.

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Ingenuity's success could pave the way for more extensive aerial exploration of Mars down the road. Mission team members are already working on designs for larger, more capable rotorcraft that could collect a variety of science data on the Red Planet, for example.

And Mars isn't the only drone target: In 2028, NASA plans to launch Dragonfly , a $3.3 billion mission to Saturn's huge moon Titan, which hosts lakes, seas and rivers of liquid hydrocarbons on its frigid surface. The 1,000-pound (450 kg) Dragonfly will hop from spot to spot on Titan , characterizing the moon's various environments and assessing its habitability.

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Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with  Space.com  and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018. Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. To find out what his latest project is, you can follow Michael on Twitter.

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• NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is collecting samples that could be evidence of ancient alien life.
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• NASA is scrapping that plan now and asking companies for a better idea.

NASA bit off more than it could chew when it sent the Perseverance rover to Mars to collect samples.

The $2.4 billion mission landed the rover in Jezero Crater , the site of an ancient lake. It's the ideal spot to search for the fossils of Martian microbes that may have existed when the planet was lush with lakes and rivers.

Perseverance's main mission is to collect samples of the rock and sediment along the lake bed and the crater rim, in hopes of finding a sign that life once thrived on the red planet. The rover has done a fine job — so far it's secured 24 samples — but NASA no longer knows how it's going to bring them to Earth for analysis.

NASA's original design for the retrieval mission, called Mars Sample Return, has fallen apart. The agency is asking companies to step in and propose better ideas.

"We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost," Nicola Fox, head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a press briefing on Monday. "This is definitely a very ambitious goal. We're going to need to go after some very innovative new possibilities for design, and certainly leave no stone unturned."

NASA's old plan costs $11 billion and takes too long

NASA's original proposal for the Mars Sample Return is "mind-bendingly complicated," David Parker, director of space exploration at the European Space Agency, said in 2021.

The idea was to launch two rockets toward Mars, one carrying a lander and one carrying an orbiter.

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The lander would be the largest ever sent to Mars. It would touch down near the stash of samples that Perseverance set up, deploy a rover to fetch the sample tubes, and load them onto a small rocket attached to the lander.

Then the rocket would launch the samples into Mars orbit, where it would eject them toward the orbiter, which would be the largest spacecraft NASA ever sent to Mars.

The orbiter would have to grab the samples, journey back to Earth , and drop the sample vessel on a fiery plummet to our planet's surface, where a team would retrieve them.

The mission plan relied about $4 billion in new technology and a decade of mission design and construction.

But the projected cost has ballooned to $8 to $11 billion since Perseverance touched down at Jezero Crater. Independent reviews have also concluded that instead of one decade to bring the samples to Earth, it would take two.

"The bottom line is that $11 billion is too expensive, and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in the briefing. "It's the decade of the 2040s that we're going to be landing astronauts on Mars."

At the current price tag, Mars Sample Return would "cannibalize" other NASA missions, Nelson said. So the agency is calling all hands on deck, inside and outside of NASA, to come up with a new plan.

NASA wants companies with 'tried-and-true' technology

Fox said that NASA needs to see short proposals from companies or laboratories by May 17. Then the agency will choose a few of those competitors to further develop their ideas over a 90-day period, with complete proposals on NASA's desk by late fall or early winter.

Some of NASA's most tried-and-true contractors include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and SpaceX. Startups like Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are getting their foot in the NASA door through the agency's new moon program.

"What we're hoping is that we will be able to get back to some more traditional tried-and-true architectures," Fox said. "Anything requiring huge leaps in technology usually, from experience, takes a lot of time."

As for the return trip from Mars to Earth , that will be a technological leap no matter what.

"We've never launched from another planet, and that's actually what makes Mars Sample Return such a challenging and interesting mission because it really is the first of a kind," Fox said.

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NASA has selected a new crew of four volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Jason Lee, Stephanie Navarro, Shareef Al Romaithi, and Piyumi Wijesekara will step into the agency’s Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA , on Friday, May 10. Once inside, the team will live and work like astronauts for 45 days. The crew will exit the facility on June 24 after they “return” to Earth. Jose Baca and Brandon Kent are this mission’s alternate crew members.

HERA enables scientists to study how crew members adapt to isolation, confinement, and remote conditions before NASA sends astronauts on deep space missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Crew members will carry out scientific research and operational tasks throughout their simulated mission to the Red Planet, including a “walk” on Mars’s surface using virtual reality. They will also experience increasing communication delays lasting up to five minutes each way with Mission Control Center as they “near” Mars. 

This crew is the second group of volunteers to participate in a simulated Mars mission in HERA this year. The most recent crew completed its HERA mission on March 18. Two other missions will follow this year, with the final HERA crew slated to wrap up on Dec. 20.

In a first for HERA, one crew member, Shareef Al Romaithi, hails from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and will participate in the mission through a partnership between NASA and the UAE’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC).

As with the previous HERA mission this year, NASA’s Human Research Program is conducting 18 human health studies during the mission. The experiments will evaluate the physiological, behavioral, and psychological responses of crew members in an environment similar to what astronauts will face on a trip to Mars. Seven of these studies are collaborations with the MBRSC and the European Space Agency (ESA). Insights gleaned from the studies will allow researchers to develop and test strategies aimed at helping astronauts overcome obstacles on long missions deep into space.

The primary crew of the upcoming mission is:

Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and master’s and doctorate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His graduate research focused on manufacturing processes involving heat transfer and the characterization of heat shielding materials. He completed a postdoctoral degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, studying high-strength nanofibers.

Lee lives in Boston. In his spare time, he enjoys running, martial arts, chess, and indoor rock climbing. He also likes to watch movies and plays, try new cuisines, spend time with friends, and visit his nephew and nieces.

Stephanie Navarro

Navarro earned her bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. While pursuing her undergraduate studies, she served the constituents of Florida as a congressional intern for both the U.S. House and Senate. She recently completed a model-based systems engineering certificate program from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and is working toward a master’s degree in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Born and raised by Ecuadorian parents in Miami, Navarro has strong ties to her cultural heritage. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling the world, studying for her pilot’s license, and immersing herself in various culinary experiences. During her spare time, she is either working out, at the beach, or in the air flying a Cessna 172. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

Shareef Al Romaithi

Al Romaithi received a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and three master’s degrees from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, focusing on aerospace and aviation management, safety systems, and space operations, respectively. He went on to earn a doctorate degree in Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2014, specializing in safety systems and human factors. These degrees were based at the university’s Dayton Beach campus, except for the master’s focusing on space operations, which was from the university’s worldwide campus. He is the world’s youngest and eighth graduate to attain a doctorate degree in aviation.

Al Romaithi currently lives in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He joins HERA through a partnership between NASA and MBRSC. In his free time, he enjoys fishing, reading, and traveling.

Piyumi Wijesekara

Wijesekara earned her bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego, and her master’s and doctorate degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn. Her doctoral research focused on stem cell and organ engineering, with an emphasis on engineering lung models that mimic human lung physiology, to study respiratory diseases.

Wijesekara currently lives in San Francisco. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, running along the San Francisco Bay, reading, hiking, volunteering at the food pantry, and attending concerts and musicals.

Baca received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Matamoros in Mexico. He then earned a master’s degree in Mechatronics from the University of Applied Science of Aachen, Germany, and a doctorate degree in Automation and Robotics from the Universidad Politecnica in Madrid, Spain.

Baca went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the computer science department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. There, he became involved in a research project funded by NASA that sought to develop a reconfigurable robotic system capable of transforming itself to overcome obstacles and explore unknown scenarios. Through this work, he also began undertaking projects aimed at supporting astronauts during long-duration space missions.

In his free time, Baca promotes science, technology, engineering, and math activities for students in elementary school through college, with a particular focus on engineering and robotics. He lives in Corpus Christi, Texas and enjoys exercising, exploring new places, experiencing new cultures and cuisines, and spending time with family.

Brandon Kent

Kent holds bachelor’s degrees in both Biochemistry and Biology from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He earned his doctorate in Biomedicine from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where his work primarily focused on how genetic factors regulate early embryonic development and cancer development.

Following graduate school, Kent moved into scientific and medical communications consulting in oncology, with a primary focus on clinical trial data disclosures, scientific exchange, and medical education initiatives.

Kent and his wife have two daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his daughters, flying private aircraft, hiking, staying physically fit, and reading. He lives in Kinnelon, New Jersey.

In addition to HERA, NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA ), a series of analog missions that will simulate year-long stays on the surface of Mars, is informing the agency’s efforts in preparing for future human Mars missions.

HERA and CHAPEA complement each other by assessing human health and performance in isolated and confined conditions that simulate spaceflight operations in the remote exploration environments of the Moon and Mars, including communication delays and environmental stressors.  Both analogs collect data on humans living and working in separate habitats at NASA Johnson.

NASA’s Human Research Program

NASA’s  Human Research Program , or HRP, pursues the best methods and technologies to support safe, productive human space travel. Through science conducted in laboratories, ground-based analogs, and the International Space Station, HRP scrutinizes how spaceflight affects human bodies and behaviors. Such research drives HRP’s  quest  to innovate ways that keep astronauts healthy and mission-ready as space travel expands to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

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