Simulating Mars in Southern Utah
If someday Americans go to Mars they'll need to figure out how to survive and work on the red planet. Just four hours from Salt Lake City, Utah researchers are working on that problem at the Mars Desert Research station (MDRS).
MDRS is a full-scale analog facility that receives hundreds of crewmembers a year to land on mars under a simulation unlike any others, in Southern Utah’s red rock country. Owned and Operated by the Mars Society, The MARS project includes a habitat as a prototype used to study technology, operations and science under many of the same style and constraints as they would on the Red Planet.
