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. The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500m-deep, 40km-wide crater.
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Participants from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain simulating life on the Red Planet to perfect the survival skills needed for eventual Mars mission
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.