> First, you have to deal with a different day-night cycle and the reduced gravity.
There's more difference between Alaska and the Equator than the extra 40 minutes Mars introduces, and there don't seem to be significant mental health issues from zero gravity on the ISS. Bone density, sure.
> I'm betting the novelty of it will wear of in an hour (tops) of landing there.
I know a geologist who's still getting super-excited over rocks ten years later.
> Across 89 shuttle missions from 1981 to 1998, US astronauts had over 1,800 in-flight medical events; less than 2 percent of these were related to behavioral health, largely stemming from “anxiety and annoyance.”
There's more difference between Alaska and the Equator than the extra 40 minutes Mars introduces, and there don't seem to be significant mental health issues from zero gravity on the ISS. Bone density, sure.
> I'm betting the novelty of it will wear of in an hour (tops) of landing there.
I know a geologist who's still getting super-excited over rocks ten years later.