(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- In this first video diary from the Mars500 crew, Diego Urbina takes us on tour inside the Mars500 facilities - see how the crew are living and working for the next 17 months in isolation.

In this first video diary from the Mars500 , Diego Urbina takes us on tour inside the Mars500 facilities - see how the crew are living and working for the next 17 months in .

The Mars500 crew sent multi-language greetings to life scientists meeting in Trieste this week at ESA's Life Sciences Symposium.

Mars500 is an international study into interplanetary spaceflights and is conducting in 2010-11 the first full duration simulation of a manned flight to Mars.

Mars500 is being conducted by Russia’s Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), with extensive participation by ESA as part of its European Programme for Life and Âé¶¹ÒùÔºical Sciences (ELIPS) to prepare for future human missions to the Moon and .

Provided by European Space Agency