Ecosystem volunteers return to real world
By ZHAO LEI |
China Daily |
Updated: 2018-05-16 07:19
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Self-sustaining lab sealed them off to simulate prolonged life on other planets
The world's longest experiment in a self-sustaining ecosystem drew to a close on Tuesday in Beijing. It is part of an effort to explore ways to support life in extended missions on extraterrestrial bodies such as the moon and Mars.
Four volunteers－two men and two women who are students at Beihang University in Beijing－walked out of the Lunar Palace 1 Bioregenerative Life-Support Laboratory at the university, completing the Lunar Palace 365 experiment.
