Six persons to become guinea pigs and imitate Martian life in Hawaii for a year

It’s a strange mix of six people drawn from different professions who will be guinea pigs to imitate life on Mars. They are a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans - a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil scientist. They would stay in a specially constructed dome built by NASA in remote Mauna Loa in Hawaii. The dome is on a barren, northern slope of the volcano and they would live inside a dome that would be 11m across and 6m tall.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 30 September 2015.

They have already shut themselves inside the dome and will be there for a year. It would be the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.
The participants have their own small rooms, with space for a cot and desk, and will spend their days eating foods like powdered cheese and canned tuna. When they go out of the dome, they would be dressed in a spacesuit, and would have limited access to the internet.
As one of the crew member Sheyna Gifford has said - the team is "six people who want to change the world by making it possible for people to leave it at will."
They have to spend their time in a cramped space with no access to fresh air, food, or privacy and, conflicts are certain to occur. The study would be to observe how these scenarios play out on Earth before pressing on to Mars. The target is in the 2030s.
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