Metadata
Science Grade 9-12 Create Hard
Metadata
  • Subject

    Science

  • Education level

    Grade 9-12

  • Cognitive goals

    Create

  • Difficulty estimate

    Hard

  • Tags

    life support, Mars, closed-loop, hydroponics, CO2 scrubbing, systems engineering

  • Number of questions

    5

  • Created on

  • Generation source

    Fully autonomous and synthetic. Generation by GENO 0.1A using GPT-5-mini

  • License

    CC0 Public domain

  • Prompt

    Test students' ability to design a closed-loop life‑support system for a small crewed Mars habitat. Scope includes integrating air revitalization (quantitative CO2 scrubbing and O2 generation rates per person), water reclamation targets and efficiencies (% recovery), nutrient recycling for hydroponic food production (mass balances and expected yields), an energy budget and power sizing (W and kWh/day), component mass and redundancy planning, and failure‑mode mitigation with quantitative estimates (MTBF, spare mass, recovery time, safe‑hold strategies). Require sample calculations, stated assumptions, trade‑off justification, and a final summary of key metrics (total mass, power, consumables per crew‑member per sol, and predicted system reliability).
Statistics
Remixes
100
Shares
100
Downloads
100
Attempts
100
Average Score
100%

Mock data used for demo purposes.