China's first Mars simulation base project is located in Qinghai.

Reporter 8 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lunar and Deep Space Exploration General Department was informed that China's first Mars simulation base project will be located in Haixi County, Qinghai Province, Dachadan Red Cliff area, which has a typical Yadan landscape group, its unique topography, natural scenery, climatic conditions make it "China's most Mars-like place."
At the end of November 2016, the Haixi State Government and the Ministry of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration of the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed the China Mars Simulation Base Construction Cooperation Agreement, and in late July this year, a project master program seminar and agreement signing ceremony was held in The City of Delingha, the state capital of Haixi, to determine the construction address of the project in the Red Cliffs area of Dachadan.
"-like Mars simulation base is a natural laboratory for basic research on Mars science and comparative research on Mars and Earth.
, a researcher at the National Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said Mars has some special features in terms of its geomorphology, geology and material composition.
for example, the landscape is desert, no vegetation cover, geologically there are rivers, lakes dried up sediments, material composition has a large number of sulfates, perchlorates and other water after the drying up of the remnants.
and the base has Mars-like features on these three levels, which is why it became a Mars simulation base.
Zheng Yongchun also stressed that the simulation base and Mars geological and geomorphological conditions are not exactly similar, so through the relevant research on the situation on Mars, but also to achieve comparative experimental research on Mars and Earth.
experts, the construction of Mars simulation base in foreign countries has precedents, Mars simulation base project to fill the domestic space, astronomy, geography, geology, meteorology, new energy and other fields of integrated scientific practice education base blank.
It is learned that China's first Mars simulation base will also set scientific communication, tourism, experience leisure, scientific experiments as a whole, the base project includes astronomy and space science education, theme leisure vacation, film and television photography, scientific research and simulation training and other key content.
local authorities said that the future will be the star culture industry as the main direction of development, the base into China's first Mars cultural creative experience base.
source: Xinhua News Agency.