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Thursday, May 3, 2012

More pictures and video from "Mission To Mars": Austrian Ice Cave Serves as Stage for Red Planet Voyage

Volunteers and professionals at the Austrian Space Forum are testing a prototype Mars space suit in a series of ice caves that provide conditions similar to those on the Red Planet. 

Humanity is still far away from a manned mission to the planet, but the enthusiasts here believe it will actually happen one day.

See a video of the mission at http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1193800.html

For a day by day report of the activities go to http://blog.oewf.org/2012/04/dachstein-mars-simulation-liveblog/

The complete team

Suit tester Daniel inside the giant ice cave at Dachstein
during our Dachstein Mars Simulation
A scientist of Association Planete Mars tests CRV Cliffbot inside giant ice cave at Dachstein mountain