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How An Arctic Island In Canada Is Preparing Humans For The First Journey To Mars

How An Arctic Island In Canada Is Preparing Humans For The First Journey To Mars

by The Daily Eye Team March 18 2017, 5:34 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secs

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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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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