Technology tested for future manned missions to Mars


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By Rebecca Morelle

Gernot Groemer from the Austrian Space Forum on the technology being tested out in Spain's "Martian" terrain. "This is Mars in Europe," says Gernot Groemer, from the Austrian Space Forum. Looking around, it is easy to see why: the landscape is a vision in red. Only the odd splashes of greenery give the game away. Rio Tinto in southern Spain is a former mining area, and with its unusual chemical and geological make up, it is surprisingly similar to the Red Planet.
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