Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at May 28, 2002 12:00 PM

This summer at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum visitors can experience a tantalizing glimpse into the future, when humans will make a home on Mars and live off the land, by exploring the Mars Habitation Station on the Adler’s south lawn. The Mars Habitation Station (MarsHab) is an actual test facility designed for living on Mars and serves as the centerpiece for the Mars Society’s Mars Analog Research Station project (M.A.R.S). The Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by public and private means, sends teams of scientists to remote places on Earth to simulate what it would be like to live and do research work on the Red Planet. The MarsHab in Chicago is identical to the one operating in the Utah desert that has served as a base for a team of six researchers for the past year. The first of the MarsHabs has been in operation on Devon Island in the Arctic since 2000.