Mars on Earth: Project Hope underway in Ladakh

India Today

The mission is a major step in India’s preparation for future human spaceflight and interplanetary exploration, including missions to the Moon and Mars.

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00:00India just built Mars on Earth, and guess who told you first?

00:05Space Talk broke the story 8 months ago, and now it's officially happening.

00:10Meet Project HOPE, a Mars and moon simulating habitat built in the freezing oxygen-thin

00:16cold desert of Ladakh at 15,000 feet altitude, designed by ISRO and Protoplanet.

00:22And all of it on a lean budget of just 1 crore rupees.

00:25Two researchers are sealed inside the inflatable base for 10 days.

00:29No contact, no exits.

00:31They're testing food, sleep, hygiene, stress, brain waves.

00:36Basically what it'll take to live on the moon or Mars.

00:40They're basically testing everything from psychological resilience and human physiology

00:45to mission protocols, real science, real pressure, real results, without leaving Earth.

00:52This isn't a drill.

00:53This is the first of its kind preparation for our very own space station by 2035.

00:58And India's crude moon mission by 2040.

01:02From Earth's toughest terrain to deep space, India isn't preparing for the future.

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