Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at August 4, 2004 12:22 PM

When it comes to matching the blistering atmosphere of Mars for trying out a specially designed space suit, it seems there's nowhere better on Earth than the Australian outback. Over the next month a group of geologists, engineers, psychologists and biologists will test the suits as if they were operating from a base station on the red planet, identified as a target for a NASA manned mission by about 2030.