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A year on ‘Mars’: NASA crew completes mock mission
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A year on ‘Mars’: NASA crew completes mock mission

So, what does a year on Mars teach you? Four engineers have emerged from a NASA habitat in Houston after more than a year in a simulated mission, growing crops, conducting experiments and practising geology on a model Martian landscape. The crew also faced realistic communication delays and a planned two-week blackout, while Matthew Montgomery led crop-growing and rock-analysis activities as the mission’s science officer. NASA will use lessons from the simulation to understand how isolation affects astronauts and to prepare for future missions to Mars and the Moon.
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