Every summer for the last twenty years, dozens of would-be Martians have gathered on Devon Island in northern Canada to test some of the cutting-edge technology we'll need when humans finally make the journey to the Red Planet. Located well north of the Arctic Circle, Devon is the world's largest uninhabited island and home to the massive Haughton impact crater that was formed by a mile-wide asteroid nearly 40 million years ago. Between the island's remoteness, the impact crater, and frigid, dry climate, it's about as close to the Martian environment as you're going to get without leaving Earth, which is why it was chosen as the ideal location for the Mars Institute's Haughton-Mars Project Research Station.

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