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SPACE.com and MSNBC.com's Mars on Earth Special Report
By Greg Clark
Staff Writer
posted: 02:37 pm ET
28 August 2000


Part 1: Arctic Crater Reveals Martian Secrets
For six weeks this summer, a rough uninhabited island in the Arctic Circle became the focus of preparations for a human journey to Mars and a search for life there.

Part 2: Fragile Life In the Arctic
The Haughton-Mars Project is a NASA-sponsored effort to study the geology and biology of the island's Haughton impact crater in order to learn how future planetary missions might be done.


Part 3: We Have the Technology
Researchers gathered on the Arctic Circle's Devon Island at the edge of Haughton Crater to experiment with the kinds of communications, life support and exploration technologies that will be required when astronauts get to Mars.

Part 4: The True Story of the Mars Simulation on Devon Island
Supported by six steel legs rammed into rocky ground, the Mars Society's white fiberglass dome sits like some extraterrestrial fishbowl on the rim of Haughton Crater. It shimmers in the never-setting sun of the Arctic summer.


 

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