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Ryan Magill

2 dispatches · Kilbourne Hole

“Analog sites” on Earth provide NASA with test runs for beyond our planet

Apollo crews trained at Kilbourne Hole half a century ago. Now NASA’s RISE2 team is back in the New Mexico crater — one of the places on Earth that best impersonates another world — to rehearse the next human missions to the Moon.

Kilbourne Hole

For the love of simplicity and helping everyone

One of Dr. Scheidt’s key objectives on the RISE2 mission was providing UAV data with drone technology. Simulating a satellite image taken of a planetary surface, his images provide the other scientists with the necessary information to help traverse the desert terrain in a realistic manner to that of astronauts on another planet.