China has built a “Mars Camp” in Lenghu Town of northwest China’s Qinghai Province to simulate the environmental conditions on Mars, as part of China’s Mars exploration preparation. The town is known ...

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A desert moss with a knack for tolerating harsh conditions on Earth might survive Mars’ desolate landscape, too, according to research published July 1 in The Innovation. The moss, Syntrichia ...

The Algodones Dunes, straddling the borders of California, Arizona, and Mexico, may seem like an unlikely location for Mars research, but this Californian desert is offering scientists a goldmine of ...

In the middle of China's Gobi desert sits a Mars base simulator, but instead of housing astronauts training to live on the Red Planet, the facility is full of teenagers on a school trip. Surrounded by ...