Monday, 18 January 2010

Fake Space

'Mars', looks like an episode of the Banana Splits....

THE BIOSPHERE

I vaguely remember this being publicised when it opened, now it's all rubbish inside.

By 2006, the property, which is in exurban Tucson, was slated to be redeveloped for a planned community.[4] As of June 5, 2007, the property including surrounding land, totaling 1,650 acres (6.7 km2), had been sold to a residential home developer for US$50 million.

In the 1960s, the Astrogeology branch of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Flagstaff created an artificial crater field at Cinder Lake in order to train astronauts as well as test equipment and techniques for lunar exploration. They used a Lunar Orbiter image to re-create an actual lunar landscape by setting off charges of the right size to make craters of the right size, as well as setting them off in the proper sequence to get the overlaying ejecta layed out in the same order as seen in the lunar image.


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