{"id":147456,"date":"2017-01-19T18:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/5th-mars-mission-simulation-ready-for-launch-in-hawaii\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:51:51","slug":"5th-mars-mission-simulation-ready-for-launch-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/5th-mars-mission-simulation-ready-for-launch-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"5th ‘Mars Mission’ Simulation Ready For Launch In Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n A solar-powered dome sits on the side of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is part of an experiment in Mars-like living.<\/p>\n

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A solar-powered dome sits on the side of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is part of an experiment in Mars-like living.<\/p>\n

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Later today, six people will enter a dome on a volcano in Hawaii that will be their home for the next eight months, as they simulate a future mission to Mars.<\/p>\n

It is the fifth such experiment run by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. The latest mission on Mauna Loa, which ended in August 2016, lasted a full year. It is known as the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or HI-SEAS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The goal of HI-SEAS is to test what it would be like for people to live on Mars, and what the project designers call<\/a> “team performance and cohesion” \u2014 or how a group of strangers might handle being stuck together for months on end.<\/p>\n

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“It could be a long trip to Mars despite recent bold assurances of faster rocket ships, or a long stay on the Martian surface,” a summary of the mission states<\/a>. “In either case, astronaut crews far from Earth will rely on a social resilience and team cohesion previously untested in deep space.”<\/p>\n

The new crew<\/a> is made up of two women and four men \u2014 five American engineers and scientists and one British researcher \u2014 who were chosen from a pool of “astronaut-like” candidates.<\/p>\n

Like previous missions, the crew’s assignment is primarily behavioral \u2014 the team is trying to figure out how to handle social interactions and psychological burdens associated with being isolated with a small group of people.<\/p>\n