Scientists Are Roleplaying On How Living In Mars At Ramon Crater, Israel

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From the door of the expedition base, a few small steps to the left an autonomous rover passes by. A few giant leaps to the right is an array of solar panels. The landscape is rocky, hilly, tinged with red. Purposefully it resembles Mars.

Here, in the Ramon Crater in the desert of southern Israel, a team of six - five men and one woman - have begun simulating what it will be like to live for about a month on the red planet.

Their AMADEE-20 habitat is tucked beneath a rocky outcrop. Inside they sleep, eat and conduct experiments. Outside they wear mock space suits fitted with cameras, microphones and self-contained breathing systems.

The Austrian association is running the project together with the Israel Space Agency and local group D-MARS.

A number of recent Mars probes have captivated astronomy fans across the world with robotic rovers like NASA's Perseverance and, for the first time, the helicopter Ingenuity, offering a glance of the planet's surface. But a manned mission is likely more than a decade off.

With AMADEE-20, which was supposed to happen in 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19, the team hopes to bring new insight that will help prepare for that mission, when it comes.

 

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/rocky-israeli-crater-scientists-simulate-life-mars-2021-10-10/

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*roleplaying not cosplaying  

I find space exploration so interesting, but since learning about humanity's penchant for capitalistic opportunism I don't have a lot of faith in space travel being anything but another evil way to make money and have power/resources   I'm sorry to be so negative, the real world has messed me up

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52 minutes ago, Helxig said:

*roleplaying not cosplaying  

What if they wear those silver alien costumes while running the experiment? (Hope Demi is invited to this btw )

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21 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

What if they wear those silver alien costumes while running the experiment? (Hope Demi is invited to this btw )

That's why I was laughing  

I was imagining scientists running around in fake spaceman costumes at a convention calling it 'research'