NASA Scientists and Teachers to Study Mars in the Mojave Desert

NASA’s Spaceward Bound project at the agency’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will take a team of NASA scientists and 40 teachers from throughout the country to study the unique geologic formations of California’s Mojave Desert and the supremely adapted microbes that call it home. The Mojave’s inhospitable, sun-scorched environment presents scientists with opportunities to study environments similar to what explorers will find on the moon and Mars.