The Mars Society is looking for six scientists to spend four months roaming the barren landscape in a simulated space suit, returning home at the end of each day to a two-story, 8-meter-diameter living and work space modeled on the structure NASA recommends for Martian housing.

Compared to other environments on Earth, Devon Island is one step closer to Mars, it is colder than most of the Earth, drier than most of the Earth, and has less vegetation than most of the Earth. [Pascal Lee, planetary scientist at the SETI Institute and chairman of the Mars Institute.]