from everything else. so what we think is that if there are lava tubes on mars, there could be life in there, too. next, daniel is keen to show me another terrestrial analogue a couple of hours drive from the lava tube, and this one is even more extreme. we re going under the ice to an environment of very different challenges. we think about the lava tube that we visited earlier that s a ready made structure perfect for potential habitat. whereas the analogue we re currently in, here in the ice tunnel, this is a wonderful place to do isolated confined extreme environments to test various challenges that have to do with cold weather and isolation. how important is it that we find and use water ice on the moon and mars?
and that s why over the summer, a group of researchers brought a mock up spacesuit here to investigate what it might be like to perform extra terrestrial missions in the future. the suits have a lot of restrictions in terms of how your body can move, what you can actually feel or operate with your fingers. so there are a lot of challenges and restrictions for operating equipment and, as a result, for doing proper field research, so if you re not wearing a suit that is restricting some of those operations, then you don t really know how to problem solve and create the instruments that are going to be able to be operated properly in the field on either the moon or mars. scientists call landscapes which are analogous to other planets analogues and daniel leeb and gunnar gudjonsson are hoping to promote iceland to do this kind of research. so they formed a 2 person operation that they are calling the iceland space agency.
properly in the field on either the moon or mars. scientists call landscapes which are analogous to other planets analogues and daniel leeb and gunnar gudjonsson are hoping to promote iceland to do this kind of research. so they formed a 2 person operation that they are calling the iceland space agency. iceland has some of the most diverse set of terrestrial analogues in close proximity to one another that exist anywhere on the planet. so you could be on mars, then you could drive down the road and be on something similar to the moon? that s right. in 1965 in 1967, the original apollo astronauts came here to iceland because they believed that the that the terrestrial analogues that existjust north of vatnajokull glacier, around askja volcano, would be most similar to where they would be landing on the surface of the moon. and when those astronauts eventually landed on the moon,