NASA ends year long Mars simulation on Hawaii

NASA has ended its year long Mars simulation on Hawaii. A team of six people have completed a Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in near isolation for a year. Since 29 August 2015, the group lived in close quarters in a dome, without fresh air, fresh food or privacy. 

The NASA funded study run by the University of Hawaii is the longest of its kind since a Russian mission that lasted



520 days. Principal Investigator for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog, and Simulation, Kim Binsted, said the researchers are looking forward to getting in the ocean and eating fresh produce and other foods that were not available in the dome.

The team consisted of a French astro-biologist, a German physicist and four Americans - a pilot, an architect, a journalist and a soil scientist.