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.

About the Mission
About the Flashline Station
Meet the Crew
Mission Updates

  • 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.  

    Dr. Robert Zubrin President, The Mars Society

Mission Updates

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