For his excellent academic record, the young student of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, for its acronym in Spanish) will participate from April 29 to May 14 in a work mission in which he will be under similar conditions to those of the red planet.
Yair Israel was informed about his selection to be part of crew 180 (Tem LATAM I) along with five more members.
This station, established and operated by the Mars Society to promote the exploration and settlement of that planet, is located in the Utah desert in Hanksville, United States.
Due to the similarity of the desert with the red planet, tactics are developed and the terrain is studied, while all outer explorations are made with space suits and oxygen tanks.
The staff will be in a small communications base with limitations of electricity, food, oxygen and water. Everything necessary to survive must be produced, repaired, and replaced right there.
Thanks to his work on the development of materials with thermoluminescent properties for the measurement of radiation in space, Piña López was accepted by NASA as a student-researcher.
In 2015, he was accepted to contribute in the Orion program of the NASA, and at the same time he formulated his first scientific article on space dosimetry (measurement of radiation in space).
In addition, he was invited to join the “Project Pilot Manager” at the University of Samara, Russia, to develop a satellite component and measure the amount of ions in the ionosphere.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/Xf-RWgu98XU”][/vc_column][/vc_row]