seven engineering students simulated life on Mars in the Utah desert

They arrived after a long nine-month journey through space. And finally contemplate this extraterrestrial setting, all in rocks and shades of red, the planet Mars. These two French engineers are experimenting with flexible suits that protect them from the cold at -60°C, but allow better movement, on a planet on which gravity is three times weaker, far from any civilization.

Cloistered for a month

Space is not yet for now. We are on Earth, in the desert of Utah, in the United States. These engineers are doing a simulation mission in this base of the Mars Society, a scientific organization that promotes the exploration of the red planet. Here, everything is reconstructed as close as possible to what a real Martian mission would be.

They are seven, two girls and five boys, engineers, students or graduates of Supaéro in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), to live here, cloistered for a month. It will still take time before the dream of treading the red planet becomes a reality.