«Mars in a box» is an educational project aiming to introduce European secondary  school students to fundamental science through cutting-edge research on Mars. The initiative is part of RoadMap (ROle of and impAct of Dust and clouds in the Martian AtmosPhere: from lab to space),  a H2020 project led by a consortium of European scientific institutions, which aims to improve our multidisciplinary understanding of the Martian atmosphere.

The RoadMap consortium is composed of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB, Belgium), Aarhus University (AU, Denmark), the Duisburg & Essen University (UDE, Germany), the Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (ICV-CSIC, Spain), and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Spain) belonging to the Spanish Research Council (CSIC).