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Q: While this is the longest pseudo-Mars expedition thus far, two previous teams already spent four and eight months in the dome in the past. The experiments are necessary in order for NASA to know what kind of conflicts can arise from having to live together with very little privacy in such a small space. After all, its astronauts typically spend only six months aboard the ISS per expedition. 
  
 The eight-month mission members went through some issues, for instance, though they thankfully solved them and made sure the project would go as planned. "I think one of the lessons is that you really can't prevent interpersonal conflicts. It is going to happen over these long-duration missions, even with the very best people," HI-SEAS chief investigator Kim Binsted told AFP. "But what you can do is help people be resilient so they respond well to the problems and can resolve them and continue to perform well as a team." 
  
  
  
 [Image credit: Hi-seas] ||||| HI-SEAS (Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is a Habitat on an isolated Mars-like site on the Mauna Loa side of the saddle area on the Big Island of Hawaii at approximately 8200 feet above sea level. HI-SEAS is unique, in addition to its setting in a distinctive analog environment, as: 
  
 we select the crew to meet our research needs (in serendipitous analogs, such as Antarctic stations, crew selection criteria are not controlled by researchers); the conditions (Habitat, mission, communications, etc.) are explicitly designed to be similar to those of a planetary exploration mission; the site is accessible year round, and has very little variation in weather, allowing longer-duration isolated and confined environment studies than at other locations; the Mars-like environment provides for high-fidelity analog tasks, such as geological field work carried out by human explorers and/or robots. 
  
 The HI-SEAS Habitat is semi-portable, low-impact, and designed to have all the desirable analog features specified in Keeton et al (2011). It has a habitable volume of ~13,000 cubic feet, a usable floor space of ~1200 square feet, and small sleeping quarters for a crew of six, as well as a kitchen, laboratory, bathroom, simulated airlock and ‘dirty’ work area. 
  
 The HI-SEAS site has Mars-like geology which allows crews to perform high-fidelity geological field work and add to the realism of the mission simulation. The Martian regolith examined by the CheMin instrument (Blake et al. 2012) is very similar to the weathered basaltic materials found in this part of Hawaii. The site is a former cinder rock quarry on the side of a spatter cone. It is surrounded by relatively recent lava flows with very little plant or animal life present. None of the sparse flora or fauna is rare which mitigates the likelihood of adverse environmental impact due to mission activities. The flows include a wide variety of volcanic features to explore, such as lava tubes, skylights, channels, and tumuli. The HI-SEAS site is visually isolated, yet accessible by a dirt road, and a hospital and other emergency services are within a one hour driving distance (much less by helicopter). It has a cool, dry climate that varies very little over the year, enabling long-duration missions. 
  
 HI-SEAS offers not only physical isolation and geological similarity. We have developed a robust system of high-latency communication between Crew and Mission Support that imposes a Mars-like 20-minute delay on message reception each way. Communication is solely asynchronous (i.e. no real-time conversations), using email and posts to the mission project site hosted by Basecamp. HI-SEAS offers an environment where communication latency and other mission parameters can be varied according to study requirements. ||||| The exterior of the HI-SEAS habitat on the northern slope of Mauna Loa in Hawaii is seen in this March 10, 2015 image, courtesy of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii, 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 36 feet (11 meters) in diameter and 20 feet tall. 
  
 In a place with no animals and little vegetation around, they closed themselves in at 3:00 pm Hawaii time (0100 GMT Saturday), marking the official start to the 12-month mission. 
  
 The men and women have their own small rooms, with space for a sleeping cot and desk, and will spend their days eating food like powdered cheese and canned tuna, only going outside if dressed in a spacesuit, and having limited access to the Internet. 
  
 So what kind of person wants to spend a year this way? 
  
 Crew member Sheyna Gifford described the team as "six people who want to change the world by making it possible for people to leave it at will," she wrote on her blog, LivefromMars.life. 
  
 Architect Tristan Bassingthwaighte said he will be "studying architectural methods for creating a more habitable environment and increasing our capability to live in the extreme environments of Earth and other worlds," according to his LinkedIn page. 
  
 "Hoping to learn a lot!" he added. 
  
 Pioneer troubles 
  
 Any astronauts that go to Mars are facing a trip that would last far longer than the six months that humans typically spend at the orbiting International Space Station. 
  
 This image from the University of Hawaii at Manoa shows (L-R) Brian Shiro, HI-SEAS Mission Support, and HI-SEAS Mission 3 crew members: Sophie Milam, Joceyln Dunn, Zak Wilson, Allen Mirkadyrov, HI-SEAS Commander Martha Lenio and Neil Scheibelhut 
  
 NASA's current technology can send a robotic mission to the Red Planet in eight months, and the space agency estimates that a human mission would take between one and three years. 
  
 With all that time spent in a cramped space without access to fresh air, food, or privacy, conflicts are certain to occur. 
  
 The US space agency is studying how these scenarios play out on Earth—in a program called Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS)—before pressing on toward Mars, which NASA hopes to reach sometime in the 2030s. 
  
 The first HI-SEAS experiment involved studies about cooking on Mars and was followed by a four-month and an eight-month co-habitation mission. 
  
 NASA is spending $1.2 million on these simulations and has just received funding of another $1 million for three more in the coming years, according to principal investigator Kim Binsted. 
  
 "That is very cheap for space research," she told AFP by phone from Hawaii. 
  
 "It is really inexpensive compared to the cost of a space mission going wrong." 
  
 Other simulation experiments have taken place under the ocean off the Florida coast, in Antarctica and in Russia, where a 520-day Mars experiment was carried out in 2011. 
  
 This April 9, 2015, image courtesy of the University of Hawaii at Manoa shows the interior of the HI-SEAS habitat on the northern slope of Mauna Loa in Hawaii 
  
 Conflict resolution 
  
 Binsted said that during the eight-month co-habitation mission, which ended earlier this year, conflicts did arise. 
  
 She said she could not go into detail about the nature of them without breaching confidentiality of the crew. 
  
 But the crew was able to work through their problems, she said. 
  
 "I think one of the lessons is that you really can't prevent interpersonal conflicts. It is going to happen over these long-duration missions, even with the very best people," she told AFP. 
  
 "But what you can do is help people be resilient so they respond well to the problems and can resolve them and continue to perform well as a team." 
  
 Binsted said the first scientific results from the missions should be made public about a year from now. 
  
 Jocelyn Dunn, a crew member from the previous mission, said she came to love the inside jokes among the crew, doing daily workouts, and learning to cook things like bagels and pizza dough with the ingredients on hand. 
  
 "I guess I got a taste of marriage, albeit a hexagon of relationships rather than a dyad," she wrote on her blog. 
  
 Then, just days after the mission ended in mid-June, she described the joy of being "on Earth" again, eating fresh vegetables, using a knife to cut meat, swimming, and drinking soda and champagne. 
  
 "I couldn't believe how much I had missed the flavors and textures of a juicy steak." 
  
 Explore further: Second HI-SEAS Mars space analog study begins |||||
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As NASA prepares to send a crew to Mars sometime in the 2030s, they've just shut six people inside an isolation dome in Hawaii for a year—the longest such experiment in the US, reports AFP. It's part of a larger look at travel logistics in a program at the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) dome, which has already involved studies about cooking on Mars as well as four- and eight-month co-habitation missions. And yes, conflicts do arise, though principal investigator Kim Binsted isn't giving up details on past missions. "One of the lessons is that you really can't prevent interpersonal conflicts," she says. "It is going to happen over these long-duration missions, even with the very best people.... What you can do is help people be resilient so they respond well to the problems and can resolve them and continue to perform well as a team." The six inhabitants—a French astrobiologist, German physicist, and an American pilot, architect, doctor/journalist, and soil scientist—will have their own small rooms with cots and desks; limited Internet access; trips outside only in spacesuits; and foods like canned tuna and powdered cheese. The 20-foot-tall, 36-foot-wide dome is situated on a barren slope on the Mauna Loa volcano, reports Engadget. Trips to the Red Planet will likely last far longer than one year; just getting there takes eight months when sending robots and should take one to three years when involving humans. One crew member from a previous mission said upon her return that she couldn't believe how much she "missed the flavors and textures of a juicy steak." (A Dutch nonprofit is hoping to send 24 humans on a one-way mission to Mars in less than a decade.)