You might already know that humans are planning to permanently settle on Mars sometime in the near future. When and how that will happen is anyones guess, but scientists at the University of Birmingham believe some of the answers could lie beneath our feet. The researchers have set up a laboratory 1.1km underground in Britains deepest mine to investigate how scientific and medical operations would take place in the challenging environments of Mars and the Moon. The lab is located in a 3,000m3 tunnel network adjacent to the Boulby Underground Laboratory, a deep underground research facility in Yorkshire focused on…
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