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Bill Chappell

Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees

Iceland is like Mars — "if Mars had hot tubs," according to a new ad campaign from Visit Iceland. (Hordur Sveinsson/Visit Iceland)

Iceland is like Mars — if the Red Planet had hot tubs. That's the cheeky idea behind a new pitch from Iceland's tourism board, which says people don't need a spaceship to see otherworldly sights like red rocks, black sand and subglacial volcanoes. Plus, they note, oxygen is abundant in Iceland.

To drive home the message, they launched a promo video and a space billboard with the tagline, "Iceland. Better than space."

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