Utah's Mars Clone Serves As Training Site

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When the explorers look through the porthole of their Mars habitat, they see a wilderness of red rocks with mineral staining. The view is reminiscent of a harsh southern Utah desert.

In fact, it is a southern Utah desert near Hanksville, Wayne County, a landscape that looks as much like Mars photos radioed by robotic spacecraft as anywhere on Earth.

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Utah's Mars Clone Serves As Training Site

NASA and the Mars Society -- a nonprofit, privately funded group - - established the Mars Desert Research Station in 2002. Staffed by volunteers rotating in and out, the station follows strict rules to...

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