The Lunares Research Base is a specialized facility set on a former Polish Air Force base outside the hamlet of Piła designed to host analog astronauts in simulated missions on the Moon. Lunares was created in 2017 by Space Garden and is the only facility of this type in Europe.
During a mission, crews are physically isolated from the external world, as the habitat has no windows. An airlock from Lunares leads to a specially-designed simulated crater, which is filled with Moon-like basalt rocks, for robotics and other extravehicular activity (EVA) experiments.
