British researchers are trying to help astronauts adjust the biological clock for long journeys into space, and stays on stars with a different life cycle than Earth
Space crews sleep little. Earth (NASA)
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Researchers claim that the human biological clock will make future space travel difficult. This is what the BBC website reported.
A research group at King's College London is currently investigating the possibility of helping astronauts adapt to the living environment outside of Earth. The human body is used to a 24-hour life cycle. The day on the planet Mars is 39 minutes long, and it will be difficult for a person to adapt to it.
The British researchers are working in collaboration with a NASA research team, with the aim of investigating the effect of space travel on human sleep habits. The journey in space has a particularly demanding work environment. The teams hardly sleep. Your sleep in space is on average two hours shorter than what you were used to on Earth.
Studies done in the past on night shift workers taught that the few hours of sleep eventually lead to serious health problems. For example, those workers are at a fifty percent higher risk of being injured in a car accident during the night, if they have worked several days in a row on the night shift.
Current research shows that the average human biological clock has a cycle of 24 hours and several minutes, and it undergoes correction every day according to sunrise and sunset. Due to the low level of light in the space, the body is unable to orient itself in a correct way that would prevent damage.
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