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Thursday, January 21, 2010 • Noted • by Eva Wisten • #

Into the unknown

In the Space Project, French photographer Vincent Fournier, has visited The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre of the Russian Federation, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, the Guiana Space Centre, the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile… all the remote, austere places where dreams of space feel a little closer.

Read the story on the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah on Seedmagazine.com:

“THE UTAH STATION IS ONE of two research sites that the Mars Society operates to learn to live and work on another planet; the other is in the high Arctic. The earth here is rich in sedimentary deposits,. The gray deposits are from the Cretaceous, when the area was underwater, part of a vast inland sea—there are marine fossils here. There’s evidence that whole oceans or seas existed on Mars, so it’s useful to have an analog site that was under a sea in the geological past.”