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Six Astronauts Spend a Year on Mars - in Hawaii
Posted on: 30/Aug/2016 12:33:52 PM
NASA has been doing lots of research to send men to Mars. NASA decided to conduct a rehearsal to find out how the situation would be to live in Mars. To prepare for a potential mission in the 2030s, researchers studied six people living like astronauts, in a dome on top of a volcano in Hawaii.
One year ago, a physicist, a pilot, an architect, an astrobiologist, a journalist and a soil scientist stepped into a 10-by-six metre isolation dome located near Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano. Yesterday, the six-member team emerged from the dome.
Funded by NASA, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or Hi-SEAS is used to test what effects isolation might have on a future Mars crew, and is part of NASA’s goal to send a human to Mars by 2030.
While being in isolation has the advantage of not getting sick, the lack of exposure means that the group’s immune systems have not had a chance to produce antibodies against a year’s worth of cold and flu viruses.
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