Year-Long Simulation of Humans Living on Mars Comes To an End
One year ago, six volunteers—an astrobiologist, a physicist, a pilot, an architect, a journalist, and a soil scientist — entered a 36-by-20 foot dome, located near a barren volcano in Hawaii, to simulate what living conditions would be like on Mars. Today they re-emerged from their year-long isolation. The NASA-funded project is called HI-SEAS (Hawaii…