Kate Greene

Kate Greene is a freelance science and technology journalist, whose work has appeared in Discover & The Economist, among others. She spent four months in Hawaii on a simulated Mars mission for NASA.

Written by Kate Greene

An astronaut in a white suit with a backpack walking on reddish rocky terrain against a clear blue sky.

essayConsciousness and altered states

Planet boredom

On Mars I learned that boredom has two sides – it can either rot the mind or rocket it to new places

Kate Greene