LANZHOU, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — The remote and expansive Gobi Desert in northwest China is increasingly accessible to the public, thanks to the emergence of space-themed tourism, which has opened up new frontiers for adventurous travelers.
The rocky expanse has been adorned with several white capsule-shaped structures, surrounded by gleaming solar panels and distinctive “craters” of varying sizes.
This is Mars Base 1, a simulated Martian habitat located in the city of Jinchang, Gansu Province, one of China’s pivotal regions for nickel, a hard silver-white metal widely used in aerospace technology.
Resembling the Martian surface, this eroded desert landscape once served as a testing ground for Chinese scientists to evaluate various space exploration robots, including lunar rovers, Mars probes and manned spacecraft.
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