REAL LIFE NEWS: GO ON A FAKE MARS MISSIONby HazedThe European Space Agency is recruiting volunteers who will be sealed up in an isolation facility for well over a year. It's all part of its efforts to find out what the psychological effects of a journey to Mars would be. The six pseudo-astronauts will spend 520 days simulating the journey to Mars as closely as is possible without actually going into space. It follows on from a similar 105-day study which ended in July. But how much use is this? New Scientist set out to answer that question in this article - it's fascinating. |