"Mars Society Launches Simulated Red Planet Mission in Canadian Arctic"

The Mars Society has begun its fifteenth simulated Red Planet analog mission in the remote Canadian Arctic. The multinational crew of five members from the UK, Australia, and the US arrived at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on July 15 and have started conducting scientific tests and field studies. The crew will work under Mars mission constraints and carry out geological and microbiological exploration, following up on previous investigations. The FMARS station is located on Devon Island, which resembles Mars in many ways, and the crew will spend four weeks there.