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Old July 7th 10, 04:53 PM posted to sci.space.station
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)[_1078_]
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Default Experiments on length of day ?

John Doe wrote:
On planet earth, the day is roughly 24 hours long.

On the ISS, a day is about 90 minutes long, but they fake 24 hour in
terms of sleep/awake cycles.

Have they (or do they plan) on experimenting with whether the human
body could adapt to a different length of a day ? (for instance, a 20
hour day, or 30 hour day etc etc).

mars appears to have similar length of a day compared to earth, so I
guess such experiements may not be so important afterall, but still
would be interesting to know if the body can adapt to a change in day
duration and what proportion of sleep/awake is needed.


There's not special reason to do this on the ISS. Such research has been
done on Earth.

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