For the next 520 days , about a year and a half, three Russians, two Chinese and a eruopei will have to live in a container in which it will be recreated the ' martian atmosphere before and after landing. 520 days is the time required for a ' go and return from Mars, 250 's gone , the 240 back , 30-day stay, with outputs of a module that simulates the surface of Mars for three of the crew. The goal says Alexei Sitev, trainer of cosmonauts, is to evaluate the psychological and physiological effects of a long isolation and forced to live together.
For those who want to follow them, the Institute of Moscow and Russia have created a portal Google www.google .com/mars500 that every day, with virtual images, will account for the experiment conducted by astronauts Sukhrob Kamolov, Romain Charles, Wang Yue, Alexander Smoleevsky, Alex Sitev, Diego Urbina.

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