Want to study how to live on Mars? This course will take just 12 hours of your time. And it's free. That's right, gratis.
Among your teachers will be astronomer Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway and chemist Tina Overton.
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How to survive on Mars
The idea of life life on Mars has long captivated the human imagination, but while getting to the red planet is relatively easy, surviving will be a real challenge. (Video courtesy Monash University)
Your classroom will be of the virtual variety, with the four three-hour-sessions run by Monash University taking place online.
The course will cover the basics of how to survive on the inhospitable red planet, which offers visitors no air, water or food.
"Mars is cold; it goes down to minus 100 at night but in the day it can get up to 15," Dr Lazendic-Galloway said.
The most explored planet in the solar system and our nearest planetary neighbour, Mars is considered to be the only other planet where humans could potentially live. This is because it is a terrestrial planet with some atmosphere and water. To top things off, it's not too close to the sun.
"The raw ingredients are there but it just requires a little bit of help to make it liveable," Dr Lazendic-Galloway said.
This is where science comes in. Concepts covered in the course will cover a range of fields useful to surviving on the red planet - from chemistry, maths and geology to physics and biology.
"It's about how science can be used to solve problems," she said. "There are poor resources on Mars, so we will have to be very innovative."
Problem solving and communication skills will also be covered, though Dr Lazendic-Galloway conceded it will be difficult to teach some of the mental toughness needed to endure life on Mars.
The six researchers who recently emerged from living for a year as if they were on Mars noted the challenge of living in close proximity to colleagues without being able to easily escape for some time out.
The researchers lived at the Hi-Seas research lab on Hawaii, their stint becoming the second-longest of its kind, after a Russian mission which lasted for 520 days.
"If you are online and you're able to log in and out, it's very hard to recreate those stressful situations that you would find on Mars or in space," Dr Lazendic-Galloway said.
During the month-long course, participants will to pick up knowledge enabling them to produce food eat. It will also cover generating the energy required to make water and oxygen, just as Matt Damon's character Mark Watney in the 2015 science fiction film The Martian did.
It was Andy Weir's 2011 novel of the same name that inspired the film, giving Dr Lazendic-Galloway the idea of using Mars as a tool to teach an interdisciplinary science course.
"The reason Mars is such a good case study is because you can apply any kind of science to it," she said. "This is also a realistic thing, it's not science fiction. It is a challenge that humanity can look forward to."
Travel to Mars, some 225 million kilometres away, has been deemed possible by the 2030s. SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk founded a start-up space company 14 years ago with the goal of establishing a colony on Mars as soon as 2025.
Starting online on October 24, the course will leave aspiring astronauts with the satisfaction of knowing that, should they ever find themselves on Mars, they could survive and be self-sufficient.
More than 2570 people have already signed up for the course, which does not require a science background.
You can sign up to 'How to Survive on Mars: the Science Behind the Human Exploration of Mars' here.