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2 unusual facts about Austrian Space Forum


Austrian Space Forum

Between the 1st and the 28th of February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum – in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh – is conducting an integrated Mars analogue field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco within the framework of the PolAres research programme.

Directed by a Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology and life sciences.



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