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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 to test what life will be like on future missions to Earth's neighbor.
The 1,700 square-foot (160 square-meter) facility, dubbed 'Mars Dune Alpha', is located at the US space agency's massive research base in Houston, Texas.
Volunteers will stay, eat, work, exercise for a year in the facility, starting this summer, as the US space agency monitors their physical and mental health
NASA unveiled 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 missions to Earth's neighbour
NASA unveiled its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on Mars.