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Simulated Mars mission 'returns' to Earth

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Six crewmen survived 520 days of isolation, but experiment was limited in its realism.

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Sanderson, K. Simulated Mars mission 'returns' to Earth. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.629

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