Mission Mars - six scientists to spend one year in mock Red Planet base in Hawaii

#HISEAS #NASA #Mars #Hawaii It has been announced by the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation HI-SEAS that six new "Marstronauts" will be spending a year on Hawaii inside a mock Red Planet base. Their mission would begin from Aug. 28. The six scientists had been selected on July 29.
This has been reported in space.com dated 10 August 2015.

Kim Binsted, HI-SEAS principal investigator and a professor at University of Hawaii at Mānoa, has indicated that the longer each mission becomes, the better we can understand the risks of space travel.
The basic purpose of this year-long mission is to build on the current understanding of the social and psychological factors involved in long duration space exploration. Moreover, it would provide NASA an opportunity to create data on how best to select and support a flight crew that will work cohesively as a team while in space.
In order to assess performance of the crew members and ensure that it is at its peak for the ultimate Mars mission, each person will be monitored through a number of technology like cameras, body movement trackers, electronic surveys and other tools. These will track cognitive and social factors that could affect team performance.
The six crewmembers are from various streams of science and technology and of different nationalities.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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