A month on 'Mars': Trekking across the Arctic - Space.com

Being in an environment such as a simulated Martian landscape in the Arctic magnifies what would normally be small problems.

It was a frustrating morning.  Yesterday afternoon, Pascal Lee and I drove the most utilitarian of Haughton-Mars Project's (HMP) seven all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) over to the site where the team fro… [+5360 chars]

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