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Mars-500 Reaches the Equator

Mars-500 mission reached its equator of 260 days in a 520-day simulated flight to the Red Planet, Interfax-AVN informs.
The Mars500 experiment, at the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems in the Russian capital, is being carried out with the European Space Agency and China’s space training center. It was on a hot day last June when the six-man international crew entered the simulated spacecraft at the research centre. Ever since, they have been crammed inside under conditions that replicate the monotony and claustrophobia of a journey to Mars in every way except the weightlessness. The crew has small living compartments and separate modules for exercise and experiments.
On February 12, three of the group — Alexander Smoliyevsky, Diego Urbina and Wang Yue — descended onto the planet. Two days after, Smoliyevsky and Urbina walked on its «surface» which in reality is the sandy floor inside a large hangar in Moscow. The next walk by Smoliyevsky and Yue is to take place today.

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