NASA's Mars Analog Mission's 100-day milestone inside the CHAPEA habitat marks a groundbreaking experiment simulating life on Mars, aiding future space exploration.

While this is an analog mission, standing out on the side of a volcano in a spacesuit looking out over a landscape of red lava rocks and nothing much more, it’s feeling more like Mars every day ...

The mission, which marked the first completed installment of three planned programs from NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), lasted 378 days and began on June 25, 2023.

A NASA mission to test how living on Mars would stress and test a human crew ended Saturday, with four volunteers emerging from more than a year in a 1,700-square-foot structure.

Four volunteers exited a mock Mars habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center on July 6, bringing the agency's first year-long simulated Red Planet mission to an end.

NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, commenced on Sunday by sealing four volunteers in a Mars simulation for the next 378 days.

A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 ...

NASA runs an alternate Mars analog called the CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, where volunteers spend over a year in the enclosed, Mars-like world.That habitat ...

Space travel writer Heather Archuletta shares her own experiences as an analog astronaut at NASA—and the long recovery afterwards—going through months of arduous training for research. Read ...

The Mars Desert Research Station is nestled in among the red sandstone hills of southeast Utah, U.S., in a geological analog to Mars. Credit: Paul Sokoloff/Canadian Museum of Nature ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --NASA said Friday it is seeking applicants for a simulated yearlong Mars mission. The second of three planned ground-based missions under the Crew Health and Performance Exploration ...