Life on Mars: Nasa wants your help to find out if we can live on another planet

You’ll need to be healthy and motivated, proficient in English and in possession of a master’s degree. If that sounds like you, there’s a chance you could land one of the most out-of-this-world jobs there is: one of the first people on “Mars”. There, the space agency has created a habitat called “Mars Dune Alpha”, part of its Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue mission, which is intended to simulate life on Mars. open image in gallery The inhospitable surface of Mars’ Jezero crater photographed by the ‘Perseverance’ rover in 2021 Before humans can even undergo anything like the CHAPEA experiment, they have to actually get to Mars. Elon Musk has made clear that the ultimate mission of SpaceX – and perhaps his life – is to make Earth interplanetary, and he is regularly pictured in an “Occupy Mars” shirt.