Not yet , though we ’ve been trying to do so since at least the 1970s . Fabricating an surroundings that needs no power other than the sun and is a unopen system ( where waste gets broken down and reprocess ) is passing difficult .
One of the first attempts at a CELSS - Controlled Ecological Life Support System - was Bios-3 , which was completed by Soviet scientist in Siberia in 1972 . The 11,124 - satisfying - foot enclosed habitat could support three people . Oxygen was reuse by turgid pools of algae , and when everything ran decently , the system could produce about 85 percent of the zephyr and water its habitant required . The foresighted mission lasted 180 days .
NASA commence its BioHome experimentation in 1989 in a life - support organisation about the size of a double - encompassing laggard . investigator canvas wastewater treatment and the effects of indoor air quality in a synthetic environment and discover , not surprisingly , that plants greatly improved the air and made occupier healthy . Biosphere 2 , which was set up in 1991 near Tucson , Arizona , was the enceinte CELSS and is now both a lab and museum .
A young biodome , call the Biotron , open in Western Ontario in 2007 . It was construct to examine the consequence of lift temperatures on ecosystem . The Biotron house monumental 20 - understructure - high columns , each filled with 22,000 pounds of dirt . Researchers subject the dirt to temperature roam from – 40˚ to 104˚F to best understand the biology of our warm Earth . The Biotron is the first lab that can test clime models in this way , give scientists a look at the hereafter of this major planet — the only ferment biosphere they know of .
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This postal service originally appeared onPopular Science .
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