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Mars on Earth

Posted May 14, 2014 7:49 AM

From ESA Top News:

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Not an artist's impression of a mission to Mars but a simulation here on Earth in Hawaii.

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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 647	#1 Re: Mars on Earth 05/14/2014 8:01 PM
	I think they use these to measure the barometric pressure there: __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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Lynn.Wallace Guru Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 581 Good Answers: 15	#2 Re: Mars on Earth 05/15/2014 11:12 AM
	Isolated parts of southern Utah have also been used to simulate Mars. Hawaii's too humid, though it dries out at altitude. I think the best Earth-Mars analogue might be Chile's Atacama Desert. __________________ Ignorance is no sin. Willful ignorance is unforgiveable.
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The.Tinkerer Guru Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 732 Good Answers: 17	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Mars on Earth 05/15/2014 11:47 AM
	Too expensive when you consider that UH Manoa can just drive down the road to Mars. __________________ common knowledge...less common than common sense
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