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Florian Voggeneder

Field crew member Aline Decadi peeks through a window blind in the crew's quarters.

Ghostly light escapes from one of AMADEE-18's storage containers. It took more than a month to send Kepler Station's components to Oman and then build the temporary base.

Artificial lighting throws a rocky outcrop north of Kepler Station into stark relief.

Field crew member Claudia Kobald holds up sprouts grown in HORTEXTREME. Because of the vast distance from Earth, future Mars astronauts will need to grow their own fresh food.

Analog astronauts Carmen Köhler and Iñigo Muñoz Elorza conduct an Italian Space Agency experiment to test how a Mars-like environment reflects different wavelengths of light.

Students at Austria's Sir Karl Popper Schule designed this wind-driven rover concept, named TUMBLEWEED, to roll large distances across Martian terrain and take measurements as it goes.

A microwave antenna provides communication services to Kepler Station, which was built in an undisclosed location in the deserts of Oman.

AMADEE-18 analog astronaut Iñigo Muñoz Elorza is an instructor at the European Astronaut Center. He has also remotely operated experiments aboard the International Space Station.

Field crew members Alessandro Boesso and Claudia Kobald sample sprouts from HORTEXTREME, an experimental greenhouse designed by the Italian Space Agency.

Field crew member Michael Müller conducts AD3PT, an experiment jointly run by the OeWF and Texas A&M University that tested how a 3-D printer might work on a Mars mission.