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Ross Lockwood. Photo by Lucie Poulet.

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Ross Lockwood went on a space journey to Mars — without leaving Earth. He spent 120 days living in a NASA-built dome on the slopes of a dormant volcano in Hawaii.Ross Lockwood went on a space journey to Mars — without leaving Earth. He spent 120 days living in a NASA-built dome on the slopes of a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

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