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Alexandr Smoleevskiy and Diego Urbina with a simulated Mars soil sample (photo ESA)

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The Mars500 expedition organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency) had virtually reached Mars a few days ago and it was time to simulate the descent to Mars and to explore the area near the lander.

The Mars 500 facility

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The Mars500 expedition organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow with the participation of ESA (European Space Agency) to simulate an expedition to Mars has virtually reached the red planet and it’s preparing for the landing.

Debian logo

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After about two years the Debian project has released version 6.0, code-named Squeeze,ot its famous distribution. In addition to the classic Debian GNU/Linux there’s the official release of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Debian distribution based on the FreeBSD kernel though not all the advanced features for the desktop are supported.