National Geographic’s Most Incredible Photos of 2016

Going To Mars

This photo was originally published in “Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet,” in November 2016.

Mars has long been considered by many researchers and experts to be an inhabitable planet, which is why NASA is trying their best to send someone there. The photo above shows Pablo de León, a space engineer, testing out a prototype space suit at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in an area simulating conditions on the red planet.

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