{"id":65361,"date":"2017-09-15T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=65361"},"modified":"2021-06-09T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:45:22","slug":"mars-simulation-crew-readying-to-exit-mauna-loa-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/15\/mars-simulation-crew-readying-to-exit-mauna-loa-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars simulation crew readying to exit Mauna Loa habitat"},"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=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xP3qdIMcLrY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The eight-month mission to &ldquo;Mars&rdquo; for the fifth University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hi-seas.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation<\/a> (HI-SEAS) crew is almost over. Anticipation is building, as the crew members get ready to exit their habitat on Mauna Loa on Sunday, September 17, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>NASA<\/abbr>-funded <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> project aims to help determine the individual and team requirements for long-duration space exploration missions, including travel to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Long term space travel is absolutely possible,&rdquo; says Laura Lark, <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">V<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"information technology\">IT<\/abbr> specialist. &ldquo;There are certainly technical challenges to be overcome. There are certainly human factors to be figured out, that\u2019s part of what <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> is for. But I think that overcoming those challenges is just a matter of effort. We are absolutely capable of it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/hi-seas\/\">Read more <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News stories about <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_65388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65388\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-cooking.jpg\" alt=\"A crewmember prepares pancakes on the HI-SEAS habitat kitchen equipment\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-cooking.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-cooking-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-cooking-630x353.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooking in the habitat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight-month mission to &ldquo;Mars&rdquo; for the fifth <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) crew is almost over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":65396,"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-65361","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":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-drone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65361","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=65361"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143433,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65361\/revisions\/143433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}