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 would be like to live for about one month on the Red Planet.
Their AMADEE-20 habitat is tucked beneath a rocky outcrop. Inside they sleep, eat and conduct experiments. Outside they
MITZPE RAMON (ISRAEL) - Inside a huge crater in Israel's sun-baked Negev desert, a team wearing space suits ventures forth on a mission to simulate conditions on Mars.
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AMADEE-20 is a 28-day Mars analog simulation taking place in the Negev desert, starting tomorrow, and will be managed by the Austrian Space Forum and the Israel Space Agency
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