Preparing for manned missions to Mars, engineer trains on Hawaii volcano
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:21
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Chemical Engineering doctoral student Anne Caraccio is currently living in isolation on the slopes of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. She is participating in one of three University of Hawaii led missions that simulate the conditions future space explorers will experience living on Mars, a project known as HI-SEAS (Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). The current mission will last four months for the six-member crew, and two future missions will extend to eight and then 12 months.