China Brings Mars a Little Closer with Replica on Tibet Plateau

95,000 Square-Kilometre Space Base Will Be Used to Train Astronauts as Well as Entertain Glamping Tourists

The “simulated Mars station” – a 95,000 square-kilometre tribute to the solar system’s second-smallest planet – will be built in Qinghai province’s Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, not far from the westernmost tip of the Great Wall.