Field crew members Alessandro Boesso and Claudia Kobald sample sprouts from HORTEXTREME, an experimental greenhouse designed by the Italian Space Agency.
Photograph by Florian VoggenederAMADEE-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.
A microwave antenna provides communication services to Kepler Station, which was built in an undisclosed location in the deserts of Oman.
Photograph by Florian VoggenederStudents 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.
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.
Photograph by Florian VoggenederField 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.
Photograph by Florian VoggenederArtificial lighting throws a rocky outcrop north of Kepler Station into stark relief.
Photograph by Florian VoggenederGhostly 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.
Photograph by Florian VoggenederField crew member Aline Decadi peeks through a window blind in the crew's quarters.
Photograph by Florian Voggeneder