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Introduction

In the other hand, in the beginnings our microorganisms are going to need an appropriate environment to grow. Regarding this, we have designed and built a Red-House (an analogy with a greenhouse but in the red planet) in order to preserve the growing cultures until the atmospheric conditions reach the proper values to the microbial growth. The Red-House is a device designed to protect the microorganisms from the harsh conditions of temperature, pressure and radiation. The device is thermally isolated from the exterior media so we can warm its interior with electricity generated using wind turbines.

The idea to make this device was inspired by the reading of Robinson's Red Mars in wich the first martian colonist spread windmills to seed microorganism over the surface of Mars.

An interesting result of this part of the project is that we could probe the Red-House is capable of protect the cultures inside them, and that the cultures grow significatively more inside than outside the device.