{"id":70774,"date":"2017-07-10T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/poland-is-about-to-launch-a-fake-mars-colony-on-a-hilltop"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:00:07","slug":"poland-is-about-to-launch-a-fake-mars-colony-on-a-hilltop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/poland-is-about-to-launch-a-fake-mars-colony-on-a-hilltop","title":{"rendered":"Poland is about to launch a fake Mars colony on a hilltop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEpde67FjwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A group affiliated with the United Nations is launching a fake Mars and moon colony.<\/li>\n<li>Called M.A.R.S., the faux habitat is located in the remote countryside of southern Poland.<\/li>\n<li>Six volunteer astronauts will work and live inside M.A.R.S. for two weeks, starting on July 31.<\/li>\n<li>Organizers hope to use the data and lessons they learn to support real missions to the moon and Mars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Atop a forested ridge in southern Poland, a mission on the surfaces of both Mars and the moon is about to launch.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week mission is just a simulation, of course, since no entity on Earth is prepared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-mars-speech-transcript-2016-9\">inhabit deep space<\/a>. But the experiment \u2014 called the Poland Mars Analogue Simulation 2017 \u2014 will study a group of six volunteer \u201canalogue\u201d astronauts as they work through a realistic schedule of space exploration, then provide those findings to anyone who\u2019s drawing up crewed missions beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.de\/polish-mars-lunar-colony-pmas-2017-7?r=US&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.de\/polish-mars-lunar-colony-pmas-2017&#45;7?r=US&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group affiliated with the United Nations is launching a fake Mars and moon colony. Called M.A.R.S., the faux habitat is located in the remote countryside of southern Poland. Six volunteer astronauts will work and live inside M.A.R.S. for two weeks, starting on July 31. Organizers hope to use the data and lessons they learn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70784,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70774\/revisions\/70784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}