2001-05-14 | SCIENCE, MISSIONS, TECHNOLOGIES
Remote Devon Island Is Site of Mars Research
Preparations are underway for this summer's installment of the Haughton-Mars expedition to Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. Cold and dry, the terrain resembles nowhere so much as Mars. This makes it an ideal location to test technologies for future human missions to Mars. This year, a group of researchers will spend the summer living in a prototype Mars base. Before venturing outside the small dome, they will have to don spacesuits and wait 20 minutes in a simulated airlock. But during their excursions, the scientists will doing real research—testing robotics and analyzing the Mars-like environment. "We're not playing Mars," expedition leader Pascal Lee told Florida today. This dress rehearsal for a Mars mission will tell the researchers how much water astronauts will require, and how to design a future base's cramped interior to create a livable, productive environment.
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