A unique Mars exploration analogue research facility
Follow our mission as we develop the knowledge that will prove critical for human safety and productivity on the surface of Mars.
Our crews at FMARS are required to conduct a sustained program of geological, microbiological and climatological field exploration in a cold and dangerous remote environment while operating under many of the same constraints that a human crew would face on Mars. It is only under these conditions, where the crew is trying hard to get real scientific work done, while dealing with bulky equipment, cold, danger, discomfort, as well as isolation, that the real stresses of a human Mars mission can be encountered, and the methods for dealing with them mastered. It is only under these conditions that all sorts of problems that Mars explorers will face can be driven into the open so they can be dealt with. Only by doing these missions can we make ourselves ready to go to Mars. Nothing like this has ever been done before.
Note: this is the final daily report of the FMARS-16 mission. It includes the daily report for both 7/13 and 7/14. The Arctic Wolves awoke on Friday morning by splitting up into two teams. Crew [...]
Author: Michael Andrews – Crew Logistics We are anticipating today to be our last full day at the Devon Island and our research station. Although this report may be short, the day was full [...]
Author: Michael Andrews – Crew Logistics The Arctic Wolves team started the day with the assumption that we may have to depart as early as 1800 tonight. We later learned that we would have [...]
Author: Michael Andrews – Crew Logistics This was our last day in true simulation on Devon Island, so we did our best to make it count. The Arctic Wolves crew had the following objectives: [...]
Author: Natasha Nicholson – Chief Science Officer Flashline Mars Research Station, Devon Island, 75°25’53”N, 89°49’27”W, Nunavut. Expedition Commander: Natasha Nicholson Team: Ilaria [...]
