Biomes and Parts of the Biosphere Part 1

Well, the biosphere is actually a pretty big place. I'm going to have to cover it in parts.

However, if you're visiting the biosphere, the first place in the actual biosphere that you'll visit, besides the visitor center and student village, will be the habitat. The habitat is where the original members of missions 1 and 2 at Biosphere 2 lived. Inside the habitat is a massive stone table, a retro-70's style kitchen, and a couple of rooms. Only one of the sleeping rooms is visible to tourists. The rest are roped off or blocked.

Beyond the sleeping rooms is the control room, a room for experiments (now used for storage), and the lower habitat. The lower section of the habitat consists of some rooms now used mostly for displays, and a greenhouse where food for the biospherians was grown, and where animals were kept.

The following image is taken in the experimentation room, now used for storage.

From Biosphere 2 Biomes

The following image used to be the greenhouse where animals were kept and food was grown. Having spoken with the researcher who will soon be working in this area, this greenhouse will soon be converted into a hill-slope experiment, which will entail looking at the effects of hills and slopes on plant growth, and water runoff.

From Biosphere 2 Biomes

Also worth noting the habitat is there is a tower that goes up -- it is now blocked to the public, but it used to be the library where the biospherians could read in their free time. The following image is looking up the stairwell.

From Biosphere 2 Biomes