“…Fieldwork in hostile environments offers an important opportunity to build experience in terms of protocols, workflows, instrumental performance, and problem-solving techniques, all of which will enrich our knowledge and help to improve the design, operation, scientific analysis, and outcome of future missions (Snook and Mendell, 2004;Cannon et al, 2007;Groemer, 2014;Losiak et al, 2014aLosiak et al, , 2014b. Several simulated missions have been developed in the past decade, such as the NASA DESERT-RATS (Abercromby et al, 2013), the NASA HI-SEAS (Binsted et al, 2013;Binsted et al, 2015;Häuplik-Meusburger et al, 2017), the ESA CAVES (Bessone et al, 2015), MOON-WALK (Imhof et al, 2015;Vögele, 2016), MARS-500 (Poláčková Š olcová et al, 2016), and others (West et al, 2010;Steele et al, 2011).…”