{"id":21533,"date":"2022-10-27T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/news\/inlaber-winner-of-nasa-s-marsxr-challenge\/2022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:26:59","slug":"inlaber-winner-of-nasa-s-marsxr-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/news\/inlaber-winner-of-nasa-s-marsxr-challenge","title":{"rendered":"inLaber winner of NASA &#8216;s MarsXR Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recreating scenarios with conditions similar to those of Mart so that the astronauts can train can be very costly. For this reason, NASA is using a Virtual Reality simulation to make these scenarios. During the month from May to July, NASA presented MarsXR Challenge, a contest destined to improve this Mars simulator through <em>crowdsourcing<\/em>, ua working method where the public is invited to contribute ideas or solutions to certain tasks. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contest was aimed at creating scenarios or tools that could be used to train astronauts in extra-vehicular activity scenarios (EVA). The different categories where solutions could be presented were:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Camp assembly: destined to all those tasks that had to do with the preparation of the habitat, such as assembling solar panels, assembling the wiring of the habitat or a greenhouse to grow food.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scientific research: destined to all those tasks related to the capture of Martian information, such as the collection of samples from the soil, the collection of meteorological data or environmental radiation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exploration: for tasks related to the exploration of the land and the search for places of interest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintenance: for tasks to maintain the proper functioning of the equipment in use. Examples of possible solutions are to make a stage to clean the solar panels of the dust that they end up acquiring, to make a stage with the analysis and maintenance of the rovers or the exploration vehicle, or to make tools that help to make the cleaning of the habitat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other proposals: this category includes all other scenarios or ideas that you may have, as long as they meet the objective of the contest. Some examples in this category are the creation of a belt to store the tools, so that they are not manually loaded, or the creation of an enclosure system attached to the treatment (EVA suit).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2200 contestants were able to access a part of this simulation, which contained 400km\u00b2 of the Mart terrain, the Jezero crater (obtained from satellite images), with day and night cycles, realistic weather and gravity conditions, and other tools to facilitate the development of solutions. The simulation has been done using Epic Games&#8217; software, Unreal Engine 5. (If you want to take a look at the simulator, you can download it from Epic Games, searching \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/es-ES\/p\/nasa-xoss-marsxr-editor\">NASA XOSS MarsXR Editor<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En aquest concurs, l\u2019inLaber <a href=\"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/ca\/persones\/pol-sturlese\">Pol Sturlese<\/a> va participar formant part de l\u2019equip Overheat, un dels equips guanyadors que va desenvolupar solucions per diverses categories. L\u2019equip va entregar 5 escenaris diferents, i tots ells van ser premiats. Entre els lliuraments m\u00e9s destacables es troba la simulaci\u00f3 del muntatge i connexi\u00f3 de panells solars, i la missi\u00f3 i conjunt d\u2019eines per la recollida de mostres de terreny per a analitzar a posteriori. Podeu veure uns petits v\u00eddeos de les 5 entregues fetes per l\u2019equip en els seg\u00fcents enlla\u00e7os:<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exploring team: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8jZRd3c7uns\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8jZRd3c7uns<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solar panels assembly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FExHCrEyqBg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FExHCrEyqBg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research of the terrain: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=05dLQWnF-JM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=05dLQWnF-JM<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ground sampling: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3QYfeX2dIw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3QYfeX2dIw<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other proposals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mE9jgjM7pJU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mE9jgjM7pJU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>For more information about the contest or future calls, you can search <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/help-nasa-develop-vr-for-mars-missions\">NASA&#8217;s web<\/a>, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herox.com\/MarsXR\">contest&#8217;s web<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recreating scenarios with conditions similar to those of Mart so that the astronauts can train can be very costly. For this reason, NASA is using a Virtual Reality simulation to make these scenarios. During the month from May to July, NASA presented MarsXR Challenge, a contest destined to improve this Mars simulator through crowdsourcing, ua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":35464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,588],"tags":[],"experteses":[],"class_list":["post-21533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-prizes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33341,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions\/33341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"experteses","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlab.fib.upc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experteses?post=21533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}