A year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins
A year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins
2015-08-29 15:36
Miami - Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping Nasa prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.
The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans - a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil scientist.
They are based on a barren, northern slope of Mauna Loa, living inside a dome that is 11m in diameter and 6m tall.
In a place with no animals and little vegetation around, they closed themselves in at 15:00 Hawaii time (01:00 GMT on Saturday), marking the official start to the 12-month mission.
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