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LIFE ON MARS

Haritina Mogoşanu calls herself Hari – and New Zealand’s first Martian. In 2012, she led the “KiwiMars” team of six who spent a fortnight at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. At the tiny US base station, working and living conditions simulate those humans might encounter in an artificial habitat on the red planet. When

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