Mars is a mostly dry, dusty, barren place. Earth, our big blue-green marble of a planet, has a few places like that too, which makes them the perfect places to study how humans might eventually colonize the Red Planet. Several scientific organizations are in the midst of doing just that, and China is one of them.
In the Gobi desert, China has built what it calls “Mars Base 1,” a simulated martian colony where teenage students can get a taste of life on another planet without even leaving their home country. The facility and its remote location allows students to suit up like astronauts and experience both the rewards and hardships of existence somewhere other than Earth.
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