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July 7th 10, 09:32 PM posted to sci.space.station
Jeff Findley
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Experiments on length of day ?
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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.
In fact, I don't think you'd want to do it on ISS because in an
experiment, you typically want to have one variable. Microgravity on
ISS would introduce a second variable, so without a control group on ISS
itself (not likely given the very small crew size), the results wouldn't
be terribly conclusive.
Jeff
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