A free online university course will teach you Mars survival skills
 

A free online university course will teach you Mars survival skills
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We could be living on Mars by the year 3000, so it's time to get prepared.

To help us earthlings ready ourselves for the journey, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is offering a free online course focused on how to survive the red planet.*

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Developed by astrophysicist Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway and chemistry professor Tina Overton, the course "How to Survive on Mars: The Science Behind Human Exploration of Mars" will run over four weeks, three hours per week with the first instalment beginning on Oct. 24.

According to Lazendic-Galloway, the course emerged from she and Overton's love of Andy Weir's bestselling **vel, The Martian, which was made into a 2015 film starring Matt Damon. Read more...

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