Mars research crew completes eight-month survival study
NASA-backed six-member group emerges from eight-month isolation in a Mars simulator near the largest active volcano in the world.
After emerging from their habitat, crew members posed for a photo on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017.
Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, HI-SEAS group have emerged from their isolation near Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa on Sunday after completing an eight-month study which aims to understand how humans could cope with Mars-like environment.
The crew members ate freeze-dried and canned food during their “life on Mars”, when exited they all smiled happily and hugged their families.
Researchers had a chance to figure out psychological impacts of a long-term manned mission to space would have on astronauts.
US space agency NASA wants to send its first humans mission to the red planet by the 2030s.
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