{"id":1339,"date":"2017-10-26T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/blogs\/news\/visiting-biosphere-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:48:00","slug":"visiting-biosphere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/blogs\/news\/visiting-biosphere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Visite de Biosphere 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9802_2048x2048.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9659_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Roughly 60 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona resides a glass-enclosed research facility, Biosphere 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9671_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Le site parfait pour tester le tr\u00e8s attendu G\u00a0Pen Gio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9702_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Construit par\u00a0<span>Space Biosphere Ventures<\/span>\u00a0in 1987, the apparatus took four years to build. Originally meant to &#8220;demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in outer space,&#8221;\u00a0it&#8217;s hosted two missions of research groups that attempted to live exclusively in a closed-system experiment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9733_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>The first mission lasted two years. Despite numerous challenges and criticism from the media, it laid the foundation for one of the most unusual facilities for\u00a0scientific study\u00a0and discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9842_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n\n<p>Le complexe abrite sept \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes mod\u00e8les\u00a0: une\u00a0<span>for\u00eat tropicale humide,\u00a0<\/span><span>un oc\u00e9an, des mar\u00e9cages bois\u00e9s domin\u00e9s par des mangroves, une savane tropicale, <\/span><span>coastal fog desert, three desert hillslope grass-shrubland landscapes, and the Biosphere 2 campus, which serves as an urban ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9754_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Since Biosphere 2 was originally designed to be quarantined\u00a0from the outside world, the two lungs are considered great engineering achievements to the facility. The West Lung (above) served as a &#8220;variable expansion chamber&#8221; to allow pressure changes inside Biosphere 2. With this giant rubber membrane, the facility was able to remain sealed off while still letting air expand and contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9778_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>A controlled vegetation habitat for future space travel. Didn&#8217;t see any potatoes&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9792_437dd3cd-26ba-40bf-8b0e-b117517e5307_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>In its entirety, the campus spans over 3.14 acres. It serves as a &#8220;model city,&#8221; allowing researchers to monitor and manipulate\u00a0an array of situations without ramifications. This provides a unique approach in developing better practices and strategies for resource management as the planet continues adapting to climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9801_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>What was once a library to the original researchers\u00a0now serves as an art gallery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9793_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>We were lucky enough to see the last day of Lee Pivnik&#8217;s (artist in residence)\u00a0<em>Love That Bears No Fruit.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9863_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"inline-image\"><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in eco-systems and sustainable practices, be sure to stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/biosphere2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biosphere 2<\/a> la prochaine fois que vous serez en Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9632-2_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9667_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9728_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9739_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9756_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9803_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9824_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STZ9763_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 60 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona resides a glass-enclosed research facility, Biosphere 2.\u00a0 The perfect\u00a0site to test out the highly anticipated G Pen Gio. Constructed by\u00a0Space Biosphere Ventures\u00a0in 1987, the apparatus took four years to build. Originally meant to &#8220;demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in outer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.gpen.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}