
My Year on "Mars"
Physicist Christiane Heinicke spent 365 days sequestered with five others in a geodesic dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano to test what isolation might do to the psyches of the crew on a Mars mission...
Christiane Heinicke is a German physicist and engineer. Her main interests are things that can flow, like water, air or molten metal, but she has also studied auroras and done simulations of the Earth's mantle. At HI-SEAS she is working on extracting water from the ground, studying the crew's sleep patterns and doing experiments related to the toxicity of Martian soil.
Physicist Christiane Heinicke spent 365 days sequestered with five others in a geodesic dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano to test what isolation might do to the psyches of the crew on a Mars mission...
Report from a simulated Martian research station
Scientists begin yearlong Red Planet simulation at Mauna Loa
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