The habitat and two ramonouts
The habitat, two ramonauts and part of the crater view

D-MARS is a human analog mission to the planet Mars, taking place in Makhtesh Ramon in the Negev desert in Israel. D-MARS is an acronym for "Desert Mars Analog Ramon Station" and its crew are known as "ramonauts". Ramon's geological features and aridity are similar to those of Mars.[1] The mission site is a valley that resembles the impact craters of Mars.

Several missions have been carried out since the beginning of 2018, each staffed by six crew.[1][2] They have performed experiments across many disciplines, including physics, soil studies, microbial studies, psychology, agriculture, water supply and engineering.[3] Their suits were designed by the Israeli fashion designer Alon Livne.[1]

The first mission took place for 4 days in February 2018. In 2019 the mission lasted for 11 days and in 2020 two student missions were held in March and 5 day training were held in November. In 2021 the mission took place from 4 to 31 October and six astronauts from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain took part in the mission with mutual cooperation of Austrian Space Forum and Israel Space Agency.[4][5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Simona Shemer (30 January 2018). "Israelis On 'Mars': Astronauts To Simulate Life On Red Planet In Desert Habitat". No Camels.
  2. ↑ "About D-MARS". Archived from the original on 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  3. ↑ Yonatan Sredni (10 January 2017). "Mission To Mars: Israeli Scientist Prepares To 'Live' On Mars". No Camels.
    - D-MARS analog on Twitter
  4. ↑ Brownlee, Scott (2021-10-23). "Astronauts settle into their Martian base camp on Earth". euronews. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  5. ↑ "AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation". Austrian Space Forum (OeWF). Retrieved 2022-07-15.

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