![]() ![]() Operated by the non-profit Mars Society, the station's mission is to help develop key knowledge needed to prepare for human Mars exploration, and to inspire the public by making real the vision of human exploration of Mars. įMARS is the first research station of its kind to be built, completed in the summer of 2000. The location is approximately 1,609 km (1,000 mi 869 nmi) from the Geographic North Pole and approximately 1,287 km (800 mi 695 nmi) from the Magnetic North Pole. The station is situated on Haynes Ridge, overlooking the Haughton impact crater, a 23 km (14 mi) diameter crater formed approximately 39 million years ago (late Eocene). ![]() The station is located on Devon Island, a Mars analog environment and polar desert, approximately 165 kilometres (103 mi) north east of the hamlet of Resolute in Nunavut, Canada. ![]()
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