{"id":55226,"date":"2017-01-19T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=55226"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:04:54","slug":"mission-v-crew-enters-hi-seas-mars-simulation-habitat-on-mauna-loa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/19\/mission-v-crew-enters-hi-seas-mars-simulation-habitat-on-mauna-loa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission <abbr title=\"five\">V<\/abbr> crew enters <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mars simulation habitat on Mauna Loa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMpAzk2-NWo?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>At approximately 4:50 p.m. on January 19, 2017, six astronaut-like crewmembers entered a geodesic dome located 8,200 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa on the island of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, which will serve as their home for the next eight months.<\/p>\n<p>They are part of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hi-seas.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation<\/a> (HI-SEAS) project, which has been operating long-duration planetary surface missions to investigate crew composition since 2012. This is the fifth in a series of <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> missions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55266\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-hiseas-2017-dome-260x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"175\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-hiseas-2017-dome-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-hiseas-2017-dome.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> funded <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> missions 2, 3 and 4 with a $1.2 million grant and has provided $1 million for missions 5 and 6 (scheduled for 2018).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>&#8212;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/09\/hi-seas-mission-v-crew-preparing-to-enter-mars-simulation-habitat\/\"><abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral five\">V<\/abbr> crew preparing to enter Mars simulation habitat<\/a><\/em>, January 9, 2017<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/albums\/72157677141586901\">Photos of the Mission V crew<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The crew will be monitored by an experienced mission support team and will perform exploration tasks such as geological field work and life systems management. The conditions, such as delayed communication and partial self- sufficiency, are explicitly designed to be similar to those of a planetary surface exploration mission. Daily routines include food preparation from shelf-stable ingredients, exercise, scientific research, equipment testing and tracking resource utilization such as food, power and water.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2016, <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> successfully completed its first one-year isolation mission, placing it in the company of a small group of analogs that are capable of operating very long-duration missions, such as Mars500, Concordia and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/hi-seas\/\">Read more <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News stories on previous <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> missions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55273\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-hiseas-mission-v-crew.jpg\" alt=\"astronaut-like crewmembers about to enter a geodesic dome on Mauna Loa\" width=\"620\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-hiseas-mission-v-crew.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-hiseas-mission-v-crew-260x196.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Joshua Ehrlich, Laura Lark, Sam Payler, Brian Ramos, Jay Bevington and Ansley Barnard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six astronaut-like crewmembers entered a geodesic dome located 8,200 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa, which will serve as their home for the next eight months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[308,442,484,174,9,56],"class_list":["post-55226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-hi-seas","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-space","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55226"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124694,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55226\/revisions\/124694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}