NASA mission to Mars: Hi-Seas team practices life on Mars on a Hawaii volcano
- 9 years ago
A group of researchers are living on a volcano in Hawaii to simulate life on Mars as part of a NASA-financed study, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, also known as Hi-Seas.
The six people participating in the project started living inside a dome-shaped building on the Mauna Loa volcano last Wednesday and will be there for the next eight months
The goal of the project is to study how well people can live and work together while isolated from civilization.
To simulate communication from Mars to the Earth, the crew-members will only have access to emails and each message will be delayed by 20 minutes before being sent. Any reply will also arrive with a 20-minutes delay.
Like real astronauts, the crew has to perform scientific work, including wearing spacesuits for excursions outside the dome.
Years from now, when astronauts go to Mars, it is estimated that they will have to spend six months traveling there, about 500 days on the planet and six more months on the return trip to Earth.
The NASA study is the latest of several recent mock Mars missions. A Russian mission in 2010 and 2011 lasted for 520 days, during which crew members developed sleep disorders and became less productive.
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The six people participating in the project started living inside a dome-shaped building on the Mauna Loa volcano last Wednesday and will be there for the next eight months
The goal of the project is to study how well people can live and work together while isolated from civilization.
To simulate communication from Mars to the Earth, the crew-members will only have access to emails and each message will be delayed by 20 minutes before being sent. Any reply will also arrive with a 20-minutes delay.
Like real astronauts, the crew has to perform scientific work, including wearing spacesuits for excursions outside the dome.
Years from now, when astronauts go to Mars, it is estimated that they will have to spend six months traveling there, about 500 days on the planet and six more months on the return trip to Earth.
The NASA study is the latest of several recent mock Mars missions. A Russian mission in 2010 and 2011 lasted for 520 days, during which crew members developed sleep disorders and became less productive.
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