Word: habitat
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...terribly remarkable about Building 29 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston until you consider that that's where they will be storing Mars--or at least a pretty good facsimile of it. Spread out inside the sprawling structure will soon be a dead-ringer Mars base, complete with habitat modules, an extraterrestrial greenhouse and even a ground cover of volcanic dust shipped in from Hawaii--about as close as you can get to real Martian dirt without actually visiting the planet. Astronauts training for a Mars mission could spend up to 600 days in this little village, learning...
...Spirit prove that Mars dust isn't poisonous, it would be a relatively straightforward job to assemble a greenhouse-like enclosure, raise the temperature, pump up the atmosphere and plant a few seeds. Donald Henninger, a NASA chief scientist, has identified 13 crops that could thrive in a space habitat, including wheat, potatoes, soybeans and salad greens. "You can take stored food along, but how long does it last?" he asks...
...primate indigenous to Madagascar - is a matter of luck; you have a better chance of seeing one in the morning before they retreat to an island built on an artificial lake. After all, as in any jungle, the idea is to try to see the animals in their natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled lizard. No Tarzan sightings have...
...primate indigenous to Madagascar-is a matter of luck; you have a better chance of seeing one in the morning before they retreat to an island built on an artificial lake. After all, as in any jungle, the idea is to try to see the animals in their natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled lizard. No Tarzan sightings have...
...children, though he has talked them into visiting Ecuador, where he's a WorldTeach volunteer. Others just cart their children along, as did Barbara and Ed Dunsworth, 50 and 55, when they moved from Nova Scotia (where Ed had practiced law) to take a position in South America with Habitat for Humanity. The family lives in Buenos Aires, where the Dunsworths are helping establish a Habitat branch...