August 6, 2002

11:35 AM

Mice and Martians! Mice sent to Mars, first all-rodent space crew. I like the article's style: "The crew will have no exercise wheels, however. Their motion would interfere with the centrifugal force inside the spacecraft."
posted by agregoli (3 comments total)

Aw shucks, they're not going all the way to Mars; they'll just be testing a simulated gravity environment in orbit for 49 days.

I demand that they install a Martian-Mice Live Cam.
posted by brownpau at 11:47 AM on August 6, 2002

Take-out!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 12:13 PM on August 6, 2002

See related video: Life at 25 RPM.

Personally I find one revolution per day a bit disorienting sometimes.
posted by davidfg at 12:31 PM on August 6, 2002