Mars? No, the Negev desert. The simulation of a space mission in Israel. PHOTO

The scenery it looks like that of Mars, actually the images come from southern Negev desert, in Israel. The shots document the training of a group of European and Israeli astronauts participating in the mission, called Mars AMADEE-20, a simulation of what could happen if man really were to set foot on the red planet

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The scientific initiative is directed by the Austrian Space Forum, in collaboration with the Israel Space Agency and with the participation of the European Space Agency. The goal is carry out experiments in view of possible future missions of human exploration, but also robotics, on Mars

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During the mission more than 25 experiments will be conducted, including two in collaboration with the European Space Agency. More than 200 researchers from 25 countries are involved in this international mission under Austrian leadership

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The mission it started on October 4th with the arrival of the team in the desert, the simulation started on 11 October real with the isolation of all crew members

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The team, whose members come from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria And Israel, until October 31, they will live inside a station that simulates Martian life

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The participants in the mission were called to collect energy thanks to solar panels and forced to feed themselves as if they were in orbit

The “astronauts” will also have to conduct a series of experiments and test new generation equipment, including the suits (weighing more than 50 kilos) of which they have been equipped

Always to faithfully reproduce the spatial conditions, communications with the control center, located in Austria, they will be conveyed with a delay about 10 minutes

“The Ramon crater, in the Negev desert, presents very similar conditions to those that astronauts would encounter ractually on Mars“explained Gernot Grömer, Administrative Director of the Austrian Space Forum

“The structure of the soil, the extreme weather conditions, even the type of minerals present in the soil” are characteristics that make the Israeli desert area where the training is conducted similar to Mars. Hence the decision to make it the site of research and also to carry out tests on rovers and robots in the field