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My life on Mars

02 Oct 2012

In December 2011 Ashley Dale spent two weeks in the Utah desert as part of a simulated Mars mission. This is his account of the experience

My life on Mars
With the lights from the Habitat Module glowing faintly behind me, I turned off my head torch, comms

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Ashley Dale is a PhD student at the University of Bristol, where he is working on the next generation of wing design in composite and morphing technologies. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Liverpool, and a researcher for Applied Computing and Engineering Ltd
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