Year-long Mars simulation ends, volunteers emerge

(NewsNation) — Four volunteers have returned from Mars — or at least a simulation of the red planet, following a year-long experiment on what colonizing the red planet would look like.

Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones and Kelly Haston took part in a simulation that left them isolated for 378 days, with limited communication and food, in an effort to study possible challenges that would come from colonizing one of our closest galactic neighbors.

While Mars and Earth may share a neighborhood in the cosmos, that doesn't mean they are close. It would take astronauts Read Entire Article