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Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand -- NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time

Mars Dune Alpha is located at the US space agency's research center in Houston, Texas. The house of 160 square meters has a vertical farm to grow salads, a room dedicated to medical procedures, a relaxation area or workstations. On the red sand floor are a weather station, a brick-making machine, a small greenhouse and a conveyor belt on which fake astronauts will walk suspended from straps. The names of the volunteer confinees are not yet known, but it is already known that the team will not consist of astronauts.

Starting this June, four volunteer test subjects will spend a year pretending to live on Mars inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat

Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand -- NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future…