Mars Colony

Communication to Earth from Mars, Crew 173 at the Mars Desert Research Station, Sol 12 Summary Report: Mission Status:   We are all doing well, our experiments are now complete and we are finishing off our remaining outreach activities as…

Communication to Earth from Crew 173, Mars Desert Research Station, Utah. Summary Report for Sol 8: Mission Status: All is well with Crew 173. News of our mission spreads back on Earth, and as interest mounts, we must prepare for delayed…

Is it really Saturday already? It's hard to imagine that only a week ago we arrived at the Mars Desert Research Station, and that we are halfway through our time here. It's all going too fast and yet in other ways, it feels like we have…

Communication to Earth, Sol 5 (day 5) from Crew 173 on the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah.  We got a delivery of water on Sol 4 so we treated ourselves to our first shower in 6 days (not Roy, he’s the hardcore outdoorsy type of the…