June's_Haughton-Mars+Project

Mars Exploration Program

**Haughton-Mars Project** The Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) is led by Dr. Pascal Lee,  a scientist from the Mars Institute. It is a project that takes place in the Canadian Northern at Devon Island’s Haughton.

Devon Island is the largest island on Earth that is uninhabitable to humans. This is because the climate is fairly cold and the average temperature of summer is 2 ºC which only lasts for 5 weeks. The natural behaviour: “ climate, remoteness and the geological, environmental and biological” of Devon Island are very similar to that of Mars’. 

The reason this project is important is because we can use this location to prepare ourselves for future missions that are planning to send humans to Mars in exchange for robot s/spacecrafts.

Haughton-Mars Project Bibliography 