Team:UNIK Copenhagen/Red Lab
Red Lab
In RedLab we eksperiment with and validate the work done by Green Lab When the moss has been genetically modified to produce anti-freeze protein we want to test if this actually means our moss is more resistant towards cold. To do this we had to build our completely own experiment from scratch:
Testing the Moss
Building an Arduino circuit
Everything we need to build our Arduino circuit
DS18B20 temperature sensor
Working on building the circuit on the Aduino Breadboard
Circuit diagram: Normal power mode
Mars Chamber
Imagine being able to visit Mars on earth. With a press of a button you can change any variable, simulate any possible situation, and predict the future of Mars missions. This is not science fiction, but is achieved in the Mars Environmental Chamber at the Niels Bohr Institute.
The Mars Environmental Chamber simulates martian conditions in the laboratory and subjects samples to martian conditions.
The variables that we have control over in the Mars Chamber are:
We can go as low as 1-7 mbars to simulate the low pressure of a martian atmosphere.
Atmospheric composition:
We can simulate a martian atmosphere which unlike earth is made up of 98% CO2.
Temperature:
We can cause the same fluctuations in temperature that occurs on the surface of Mars: temperatures ranging from -120 degrees to 10 degrees
UV radiation:
By using a fluorescent lamp we can provide UV radiation between 200-400nm.
Soil composition:
By using the JSC-Mars-1-simulant soil we can simulate the actual Martian Soil and examine if our moss will grow.