Spending a Year and a Half in Martian Isolation Looks Kind of Fun

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The Red Glasses Really Make It Look Like Mars IBMP

Shenanigans on a 520-day-long pretend trip to Mars Have you been wondering what it's like to spend 520 days in a little sealed facility in Russia? The Mars500 project has cooped up 6 volunteers with no access to the outside world in an experimental isolation facility in Moscow, measuring just 550 cubic meters, to simulate a trip to Mars.

The experiment started June 3, and already we have some fascinating snapshots of what the volunteers are getting up to. In this gallery, the men play Wii, do chores, play-fight, study Chinese, and even man the "spaceship" controls once in a while.





That **** Yue in particular seems like quite a card.




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