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Iceland says it's better than space. We asked NASA about that - NPR
"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.
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Iceland tells tourists it’s like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees - OPB - Oregon Public Broadcasting
"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.
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NASA's Artemis II crew uses Iceland terrain for lunar training - MSN
Iceland has served as a lunar stand-in for training NASA astronauts since the days of the Apollo missions, and this summer the Artemis II crew took its place in that long history.
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NASA's Artemis II crew visits "most lunar-like" place on Earth for training - Newsweek
To prepare for NASA's first journey to the moon in over half a century, the crew of the Artemis II spent the summer training in Earth's most moon-like environment.. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman ...
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NASA went to Iceland and pretended it was Mars - BGR
Recently, NASA sent a team of over a dozen scientists and engineers to Iceland to test new Mars exploration techniques in a lava field that closely matches the Mars landscape.
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Gear for NASA's VERITAS Venus mission gets a test in Iceland | Space
This summer, the German Aerospace Center is testing instruments for NASA's VERITAS Venus mission on Iceland's lava flows, a stand-in for the hellishly hot planet.
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Gorgeous NASA photo shows a volcano eruption in Iceland at night
This close-up photo shows the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland as seen in false color by the Landsat 8 satellite three days after the start of volcano's eruption, on March 22, 2021 at 10:25 p.m ...
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Before Going to the Moon, Astronauts Used to Practice on Iceland
NASA made two trips to Iceland, where astronauts spent several days collecting geologic samples. Broadhead spent two weeks retracing their steps along shorelines and craters carrying a Hasselblad ...
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Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees
NASA agrees: the agency has repeatedly used Iceland as a stand-in for the Moon, and it's doing so again as it prepares astronauts for new missions off-world.
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Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees
"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.
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KUOW - Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees - KUOW Public Radio
NASA and Hollywood have used Iceland's alien landscapes. Iceland's unique characteristics have long made it a destination for scientists, who come to study everything from single-cell organisms ...