What Mars Looks Like on Earth
Posted by pastalex on Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010
Like an astronaut of fake space, Vincent Fournier has spent the past decade and a half traveling the globe, documenting some of the government-run environments where space explorers train, and the lonesome, white-suited explorers themselves. The results — from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile, and elsewhere — look less like massive science experiments on Earth than the landscapes of a futuristic sci-fi flick.
Then again, maybe that’s because our vision of other worlds — notwithstanding those amazing photos of the Red Planet — has almost entirely been determined by movie directors, video game designers and CGI artists.
(For more on otherworldly places, see Vice’s interview with a researcher who spent her summer at Nunavut’s Haughton-Mars Project.)
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