{"id":59499,"date":"2017-04-27T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=59499"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:03:17","slug":"hi-seas-nasa-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/27\/hi-seas-nasa-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral five\">V<\/abbr> team tests <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> instrument"},"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\/8PxHrJOCRt0?showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8212;Video credit: <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center\/<abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the rust-colored north flank of one of Earth&#8217;s largest volcanoes, a backpack-sized instrument monitors the atmosphere and, at the same time, helps set the stage for possible human exploration of other worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Designed and built at <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/goddard\/home\/index.html\">Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a> in Greenbelt, Maryland, the instrument tracks levels of methane and carbon dioxide, two gases crucial for studying the chemistry of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Portable and nearly self-contained, the unit could represent the start of a low-cost global network to provide atmospheric monitoring even in hard-to-reach locations.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a Goddard team deployed the instrument for field testing high on Mauna Loa, in a remote region considered an analog site for Mars. There, the instrument is being maintained by the crew living in the habitat known as <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr>&#8212;short for <a href=\"https:\/\/hi-seas.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation<\/a>, a <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>-funded project run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> to help prepare for the possibility of long-duration missions on the surfaces of other planets or moons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2017\/from-volcano-s-slope-nasa-instrument-looks-sky-high-and-to-the-future\">Read the full <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;This is an excerpt of a <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr> article by Elizabeth Zubritsky.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55266\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-hiseas-2017-dome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-hiseas-2017-dome.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/system-hiseas-2017-dome-260x175.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instrument tracks levels of methane and carbon dioxide, two gases crucial for studying the chemistry of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[308,442,484,9],"class_list":["post-59499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-hi-seas","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59499","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=59499"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91920,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59499\/revisions\/91920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}