Previously on Mars.
We at MMC feel that we're ready to go faster.
Phase two expansion was underway and
the Cyngus crew had arrived with experts to
oversee our upgrades.
Base commander Hana Seung.
We had hoped to have the second facility up by now,
but we've been running into trouble every step of the way.
Within two months we'll have enough power
to double the size and capacity of your facilities.
Hana approved this?
I informed her yes.
It's a little too ambitious right now.
You don't go to Mars without ambition.
No matter how hard Ed Grann's team worked to
expand Olympus town's infrastructure,
Mars worked even harder to tear it down.
Oliver!
And I was caught in the middle,
trying to keep us alive.
Our dream is now a reality.
They don't know Mars.
I don't think we're going to get a
chance to get that reactor back online.
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Pressurization complete, perchlorate deposits detected.
Please sanitize before entry.
Seung Hana, mission entry phase 2.
We've been in full storm protocol for the last two months,
trying to budget the power and resources we have.
The way current satellite forecasts are looking it could
be anywhere between 5 to 8, 9 weeks before the storm passes.
There's no sign of relief.
Experiments have been put on hold.
All EVA's suspended.
The days seem like they go on forever,
filled with innane tasks and darkness.
And no grown-up will ever understand...
That this is a matter of so much importance!
My grandfather used to read me this book on
long blizzard nights.
I hope this storm ends before I have the whole thing memorized.
We never had a chance to bring the nuclear
reactor back online after Oliver's accident.
The redundancies are gone and we're on backup power.
I don't like running like this,
it means we're just one complication away from a complete outage.
Dr. Leslie Richardson may be overseeing Olympus town's
infrastructure now,
but I'm still responsible for the safety of everyone in it.
Two brothers.
Nick.
Twins.
That grow light can you just take it out.
And their father king.
Doctor.
This is not a good time, sorry.
We have to start rationing power.
These lamps were inadequate to begin with
and now we're only utilizing fifty percent of
their potential output.
We barely have enough power to keep the feed system running.
I'm struggling to keep this crop yield as it was 2 months ago.
I know.
The solar arrays are useless in the storm.
We have to reserve power for critical systems.
If we hadn't taken the nuclear reactor offline before the storm...
I've instructed Robert to dial the greenhouse power
down to one-quarter output.
Please.
They're only babies.
I'm sorry.
There's nothing I can do.
Would you leave me alone, please?
Of course.
I'm sorry...
Truly sorry.
With Robert squeezing every last bit of energy
out of our reserves, we were all just hanging on,
as we tried to weather the storm.
We've been studying the dust storms on Mars for quite some time,
and there's a particular season
where some of the dust storms can actually go global.
Not just regional, but global.
Dust storms on Mars can be absolutely enormous.
They can be 20 to 30 kilometers high,
and in fact the dust can get charged
and in the case of these really tall dust storms,
lightning can strike.
These dust storms are huge.
They can cover the entire planet,
and they can last for months.
They're visible from space.
Mars just kind of turns into a hazy, red ball,
and we can't see surface features anymore
with our satellites.
The dust, it's not like sand.
It's like talcum powder.
It's very, very microscopicly small nasty dust particles.
And if they get into your lungs,
it's a human safety issue.
So you would want to try to keep it out
as much as possible.
There's a lot of dust on Mars.
You know, we've learned from our rovers
on Mars that they're constantly getting covered in dust.
And one of the problems with solar panels is that
dust would cover them almost instantly,
or they would simply block out the Sun so much
that they don't work.
If you've got a dust storm that lasted for a month on Mars,
and you were relying on solar power you'd be in big trouble.
We have no energy and
I can't keep my plants alive.
This storm has been raging for months.
They call it a season.
I can't do my job.
You told us that we were sending the best minds on Earth,
doubling the power, expanding the infrastructure,
these people have been trapped in a dust storm for two months
with a third of the power they had before you had your
prodigy shut it down.
This storm is just a bump in the road.
We have the world's leading agronomist working
around the clock.
He's getting hybrids producing,
and that will make Olympus town self-sustaining.
That means Mars will have the resources to feed
thousands of people,
and those people are going to need rockets
to get there.
We own the hybrids, and we build the rockets.
We just have to play the long game.
She left, she left, but not you.
It's gonna be ok.
These are the times that try men's souls.
Paul Richardson please report to the medlab.
But this storm.
I know.
Dr. Richardson, please come in.
Look, if this is a bad time, I've got a lot of work to do.
No, no, no.
We'll talk more at next week's session,
and I'm here in the meantime whenever you need me, okay?
Come in.
Just a quick examination and you'll be on your way.
This storm, it's getting to everyone.
How are you holding up?
I'm fine.
You prepare for everything you can,
but there are some things you just cannot train for.
Are you missing home?
No.
That would be okay, you know.
To miss home.
It would be normal, even.
I'm okay.
And your wife,
how are things with you and her?
We're working mostly.
Look, I could really...
And how is the work?
The hybrids, how are they coming along?
They're trying.
They're really trying.
Hey.
I know it's hard, especially now,
but maybe the best thing is to take a little time
away from the work and refill the well.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
I couldn't save them.
They weren't strong enough.
They died so that you could live.
It's all on you.
We're going to be strong.
Just remember, we have it in our power
to start the world over again.
We have the power.
God bless Mars.
Mars sounds like a terrifically
romantic idea, what could be a greater adventure?
The realities of this adventure are almost depressing,
and they're significant.
There are a lot of challenges involved in surviving
in a very small spacecraft with a few other human beings
for eight months at a time and then being able to
deal with the idea that you're not going back to Earth
for possibly decades.
So that you're leaving everything behind,
and maintaining a psychological balance in what
is really a vast desert and unfriendly environment
is not gonna be easy for people.
It's always wise to test
what you're about to do, in advance.
You wanna live on Mars, isolated?
Create some kind of hab module on Earth,
test that in advance.
We've been here just over
seven months and we've got just under five to go
so it's like 140 something days left, um,
it's been a long time.
Hi-Seas is a NASA-funded research analog
and simulation.
It's located at about 8,000 feet on the slopes of
Mauna Loa here on Hawaii so the crews we put there
are very isolated.
The goal of Hi-Seas is to be as close as possible
to a Mars mission, so that means we put
a lot of constraints on the crew.
Groups of people living together is
what civilization is, we're very good at it.
Interestingly, the biggest problem is when you have
a small group of people.
So you'll notice there are only four crew members here,
and, well, here are the other,
here are the other two.
Yeah, when you have a small number of people, the,
the biggest risk to mission success is those
people not getting along.
And even if they're very, very professional about it,
if they're not getting along and they're not communicating enough,
there's going to be problems.
Talk to people that have been in prison,
the lack of control over your environment and your life is stressful,
to not be able to just do what you want to do when
you want to do it is a, a stressor.
This is what it will be like to be on a Mars mission.
I know that we face far less danger
than a Mars mission. That's ok.
This is a simulation just like any other simulation
but these aren't just simulated effects, these are real.
You really are isolated, you really do feel separated
from planet Earth and this is the part of the simulation
that NASA is interested in.
What we're concerned with is how resilient are the crew.
If you think about it,
the human part of a Mars mission is just as critical
as the technological part.
If the human part breaks,
it's just as disastrous as if the rocket blows up.
How's it going, Emmanuel?
I, I know that I haven't been around a lot.
I've been working really hard.
Systems are all experiencing losses and moving slowly.
We are trying to work together as a team, some days are good,
some days are rough and it's ok, you know.
I never realized how hard it was trying to
hold it together.
Just be tough.
Well, I can't keep the plants alive at this level.
I know. What do you want me to say?
We should have been at twice the power now, at least.
So... I don't know what else to say.
And no one anticipated a storm of this magnitude?
Of course not.
That storm was moving faster than anything we've
ever monitored this early in the season.
How could we?
The plan was there.
There's nothing else we can do at this point.
Let's face it.
Ugh. Really?
Do you even try to tidy up before you come home?
I mean, I did my job.
The team's training was impeccable,
the plan was bulletproof, it should have worked!
We should have had nuclear fully up and running by now.
Before we even got here.
Do you think I don't feel awful that Oliver got hurt?
It's constantly on my mind.
Did you know, sometimes I feel as if people are not
really looking at me when I pass them in the hall?
Paul?
Darling?
Also showing emotional strain is
Dr. Richardson, Paul J.
While Richardson reports no psychological issues,
his affect and behavior with the crew is, um...
I request psychiatric consultation and review of
prior and current mental health testing.
Please send all records via private med link.
Thanks.
The lightning strike must have blown a junction box
between Olympus and the reserve power station.
Every second that passes
we're draining batteries just keeping air breathable and heat running.
I've got Mae back online in the main terminal.
Mae, what's the status on critical systems?
Climate recycling rate decreased to 75% nominal.
Current rate of temperature decline: three degrees
celsius per hour.
I have to make repairs.
There's no way I'm sending anyone out there,
it's way too dangerous.
There's no visibility,
you'll be completely blind.
We'll take the Rover, get as close as we can.
It's gonna be slow going, but
it's the only shot we have.
It is.
All right, good luck.
Hey, I've been calling.
I'm sorry, I've had my hands full.
Two and a half months in a dust storm means clean-up
down here too.
Walk with me.
I want to talk to you about increasing freighter launches,
our assembly line can handle it.
I'm still doing damage control after
losing power in the middle of a dust storm,
and you want to talk to me about freighters?
The nations are getting cold feet, Ed.
This is a public relations exercise,
and the public sentiment is as low as it's ever been.
China is talking about pulling out.
Don't worry about that.
As long as the U.S. and E.U. stay on board,
no way China risks missing on the glory down the road.
Olympus town was ready for this storm;
the nuclear reactor was operational before you gambled
on an accelerated schedule.
Your expansion plan was science fiction.
The money doesn't come without expansion.
No money, no MMC; No MMC, no mission.
It was the right play.
This isn't some lush frontier land.
They are fighting for every step of the way.
We push too hard too fast, something's gonna break.
Interference detected in all navigational systems.
The electrostatics are whacking guidance to hell.
I can't see anything.
We can triangulate to
seven and a half meter discrepancy.
Good thing I came to help.
When I was a child,
the Harmattan wind would blow into Lagos from the Sahara.
Sand storms would cover the whole city,
sometimes all the way to the ocean.
People would lose their way, turn up kilometers out,
skin raw from sand burn, lungs filled with dust.
You'll have plenty to do when we find that junction box
just making sure I don't get lost out there.
Believe me,
I am grateful for the company.
Do you still think about it,
the ocean?
Every day.
Trouble is, every time it's like the
waves are getting a little quieter.
Like someone's turning down the volume.
Yeah, last week I realized I
couldn't even remember what the ocean sounded like.
Yeah.
We're going to be okay.
You sure about that?
Well, I hope so.
Let's talk of groves of warmth,
look at you, look at you.
You are so strong.
Oh, well done, you clever, clever thing.
I'm gonna introduce you to your brothers.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
and tell sad stories of the death of kings.
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed.
Some poisoned by their wives and...
You are gonna love this.
This is going to be a treat just for you.
Botanist, my ass.
Leslie!
Look, I'm up to date on weekly
so if this is supplemental, I can save you the trouble:
I miss home, but I'm not homesick;
I don't ever think of hurting myself or anyone else;
I'm not experiencing any more stress than anyone
would under the circumstances,
and the only voices in my head are the ones telling me
to get back to work.
I'm not worried about you.
I spoke to Paul and he seemed, distant.
He's just focused.
I checked his ration allotment and
he's hardly eating.
He forgets sometimes.
Look, he lives for his work and he can't do it.
What do you expect?
Can I go now?
Yeah, sure.
We don't think it's a trivial thing to send
people off to Mars and just assume that intelligence and
motivation and getting along before they go
is going to be enough.
We actually have to understand who is going to have a real problem
with prolonged exploration in an extreme environment.
Not everyone can tolerate the isolation,
the loneliness, the risk.
To life and limb.
Some people disintegrate psychologically and
behaviorally and you look back at many of the explorations
where humans moved across thousands of miles
you typically will see dysfunction
occur in crews.
It happened on Shackleton's mission to the South Pole.
He puts his men off at Elephant Island and tries to
get to South Georgia island, 800 miles in heavy seas.
But he's got a very dysfunctional carpenter,
psychologically sick, so he has to take him along
cause he can't leave him with the crew because it's going
to create chaos.
On Mars, just like the nineteenth century explorers,
you might see fragmenting of the crews
and you find these dynamics in these historical records and you see how
problematic they are for the success of the mission.
Someone wrote this at the end of the fourth century,
St. Augustine.
My memory contains my feelings.
Not in the same way as they are present in the mind
when it experiences them, but in a quite different way.
That is in keeping with the special powers of the memory.
For even when I am unhappy
I can remember times when I was cheerful.
And when I'm cheerful I can remember past unhappiness.
I can recall past fears, and yet not feel afraid
and when I remember that once I wanted something,
I can do so without wishing to have it now.
Marty? Look at me in the eyes.
Sometimes memory can induce the opposite feeling.
Jake, are you still taking your antibiotics?
For I can be glad to remember sorrow
that is over and done with.
Alex, feeling better?
Yes, yes, thank you.
And sorry to remember happiness
that has come to an end.
Anything?
Okay, just a second.
Okay, I got your signal.
Junction box should be less than five meters out,
six degrees north-east.
Anything?
Negative.
You should be seeing the cable now.
I have no visual.
Robert, it's...
You're breaking up. Javier!
I can't hear you.
What?
Storm's interfering with the signal.
Javier, Javier?
Robert, do you copy?
Hello, Javier?
I said it's dead ahead, dead ahead.
Copy that.
Damn it.
You okay?
Robert, you okay?
Robert?
I'm out of room on my tether.
Okay, Robert.
You need to come back to the Rover.
I can't move the Rover any farther forward because
of the terrain.
It's too dangerous out there with this storm.
So we can't risk it.
Come back.
Robert, you need to come back.
I'm going to unclip.
No, no, no, no, Robert, do not unclip.
Do not unclip, Robert.
Come back.
Robert, Robert, do you copy?
Do not unclip, Robert!
Robert, answer me.
Robert, do not unclip.
You can hear me, Robert.
Where are you? Come on.
Robert, come on.
Robert!
Come on, Robert.
Robert, I need you, come back here.
Robert, Robert!
The challenge people face when they do
exploration is that they're used to handling conflict or
disagreement or dislike with each other by separating,
and being apart for awhile.
With spaceflight, or any exploration that involves
intense confinement, where you can't get away from the
other people, and you're all in a very tiny space.
The whole idea of individual territoriality
becomes a problem.
This sounds astonishing.
Billion dollar explorations and yet it comes down to the
little things that will often determine what happens.
These things definitely occur, they occur in the Antarctic,
and they occur in other analogs.
The Russians created something called a Mars 500 Mission
which was a 520 day full simulation
of a crew of 6 to Mars and back.
They will live as if they were in an
interplanetary spaceship.
They will eat, sleep, and train as if they
were real astronauts.
They sealed the crew in the chamber and
isolated them so you couldn't have social contact,
and then they held the crew to not only the time delays,
but to a full simulated mission to Mars so there was a
landing on the Martian surface simulated, and it was
many, many months, and to go to the bottom line,
out of 6 crew members, 2 managed to maintain stable
activity levels and were psychologically healthy.
Four other crew members experienced problems with mood,
emotion, impulsivity, insomnia.
These were people who were astronaut trainers
and physicians so they knew about space life.
Even with that kind of a skilled and analog crew that
is close to astronauts, you find the crew is suffering.
We don't understand why people equally trained and
equally intelligent, equally capable as astronauts
will have different rates of vulnerability.
We actually have to understand who is going to have
a real problem in space flight because ultimately
there are some people who are going to have
a really hard time.
Robert? Come on, Robert, talk to me.
Where are you?
Come back here.
Robert, do you copy?
Robert, please, talk to me, Robert, do you copy?
Robert, Robert!
Found it.
What, you found it?
I found the cable.
Jesus, yeah, man.
You scared the hell out of me.
I'm here.
How bad is it?
Looks like my ex-wife's cooking.
The chef?
The lawyer.
Yeah, I can imagine, man.
Can you fix it?
The junction box is gonna take some work.
But I can do it, I can fix it.
Good job, good job.
Hana, you doing ok?
We spend all this time looking for something greater than us,
something that'll bring us all together,
but what if it's not even there?
I used to think the struggle was enough.
But lately, I'm having a hell of a time
imagining Sisyphus happy.
Hana, I'm "running out";
I miss you so much.
I want you to come home.
Okay?
I want you to come home.
Finally,
when we thought it could only get darker,
there was light.
Power restored.
Solar power back online.
Eastern section systems fully online.
Environmental system restored.
Thermal control restored.
Recycling systems restored.
- Central section systems fully online. - Pálinka, anyone?
Western section systems fully online.
Greenhouse systems fully online.
Commander Seung,
please come to the facility monitors immediately.
Commander Seung, please come to the facility monitors now.
Oliver, what's going on?
It's Paul Richardson.
What is he doing?
Paul!
Greenhouse airlock compromised.
Imminent danger.
Sam, get to the pressure door immediately!
Evacuate the west section, now!
Imminent danger, imminent danger.
Sam, seal the door.
Imminent danger.
There are people in there!
Move!
Sam, you have to seal the door.
- Imminent danger. - Seal the door!
Shut the door!
West section jeopardized.
Imminent danger.
East wing pressure stabilized.
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