not for faint kidneys...

[jay]

"So, um, do you just do it in the great outdoors?" said the reporter from the New York Times, clenching his knees slightly while pointing to the soil just outside of base camp. "No, we have a facility to capture and then transport everything," I said, "look over there at the 55-gallon drum with the funnel on top -- and the box to stand on next to it, out there in the open."

He didn't say anything. Looked at it again. Then an undergraduate geologist, his escort from the Mars Society hab a mile away, offered to take him back there for relief...