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SPACEEEMARS BEES MISSION
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THE EARTH’S MARS CHALLENGE

Mars or
Hadhramout?

Six images. One severe landscape in South Yemen. See whether you can identify Earth’s Mars.

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Desert landscape presented for the Mars or Hadhramout visual challenge
WHY THE NAME FITS

A resemblance you can see. A difference science cannot ignore.

Hadhramout, Earth’s Mars has monumental russet cliffs, dry channels, exposed rock layers, dust, sparse vegetation and immense isolation. Those visual qualities can appear remarkably Martian. Hadhramout still has Earth’s atmosphere, gravity, pressure, radiation environment and living ecology. Earth’s Mars is SPACEBEE’s cultural and visual identity, not a scientific claim that the two environments are identical.