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Life on Mars: Simulating Red Planet Base in Israeli Desert for Astronaut Training

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In a huge crater in the sun-drenched Negev Desert in Israel, a team in spacesuits ventured on a mission to simulate conditions on Mars. The Austrian Space Forum and the Israeli Space Agency established a fake Mars base at Makhtesh Ramon, a 1,600-foot (500-meter) deep and 25-mile (40-kilometer) wide crater. The six so-called “simulated astronauts” will live in isolation in the virtual station until the end of the month.

“This is a dream come true,” 36-year-old Israeli Alon Tenzer told AFP. “This is something we have been working on for many years.” Participants-from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain-have to pass arduous physical and psychological tests. In their mission, they will conduct tests, including prototypes of drones that operate without GPS, as well as autonomous wind and solar mapping vehicles.

The mission will also aim to study human behavior and the impact of isolation on astronauts. Austrian mission director Gernot Groemer (Gernot Groemer) said: “Team cohesion and cooperation are essential for survival on Mars.” “It’s like marriage, except in marriage you can leave, but you can’t on Mars. The Austrian Space Forum is a private organization composed of aerospace experts and has organized 12 missions, the most recent being in Oman in 2018. The Israel project is part of the Amadee-20 mission, which was originally scheduled to start last year but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The forum cooperates with the Israeli research center D-MARS to build a solar energy base. German astronaut Anika Mehlis is the only woman in the team. She told AFP that she was very happy to participate in the project. “When I was young, my father took me to the Space Museum,” she said. “When I saw that the forum was looking for a simulated astronaut, I told myself I had to apply.” Mehlis is a well-trained microbiologist who will study scenarios where bacterial infections from Earth may be found in potential life forms on Mars, saying this “will be a big problem.” Visually, the surrounding desert resembles a red planet with its rocky wilderness and orange tones, but fortunately, this is not the case in terms of atmospheric conditions. “Here, our temperature is about 25-30 degrees Celsius, but on Mars, the temperature is negative 60 degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere is not suitable for breathing,” Gromer said.

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The interior of the base is simple, with a kitchenette and bunk beds. Most of the space is reserved for scientific experiments. NASA predicts that the first human mission to Mars will be launched in 2030. “What we are doing here is preparing a large mission, which is the largest voyage in our society’s history, because Mars and the Earth are 380 million kilometers apart at extreme points,” Gromer said. “I believe that the first human to walk on Mars has been born, and we are shipbuilders to realize this journey.”

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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