A four-month long mock Mars mission comes to an end next week. A crew of seven has been living inside a habitat module situated on a barren volcanic field 8,000 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa. The site was chosen to simulate a Martian landscape, and the crew lived and worked as they might on Mars, even donning simulated spacesuits to explore outside.
Such exercises are principally used to try to anticipate psychological and interpersonal problems that might arise on an actual mission.
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