Seven engineering students have simulated life on Mars in the Utah desert

They arrived after a long nine-month journey through space. Finally, consider this extraterrestrial place, all in rocks and shades of red, Mars. These two French engineers are experimenting with flexible suits that protect them from the cold at -60 degrees Celsius, but allow better movement, on a planet where gravity is three times weaker, far from any civilization.

Closed for a month

Space is not anymore. We are on Earth, in the Utah desert, in the United States. These engineers are performing a simulation mission at the base of the Mars Society, a scientific organization that promotes exploration of the Red Planet. Here, everything is being reconstructed as close as possible to what a real Mars mission would be.

They are seven, two girls and five boys, engineers, students or graduates of Soubirous in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), living here, secluded for a month. It will take some time before the dream of walking on the red planet becomes a reality.