You are looking at a picture from Mars.  Will we go there in your lifetime? Space—the final frontier.  Boy is it.

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Imagine committing your life to traveling to Mars. There’s plenty of buzz about it. In fact, a NASA isolation experiment began last Friday (Aug. 28) with six people locked in a dome for the next year in the latest and longest experiment by the space agency.

The intent is to evaluate how people would fare during a trip to Mars, which at this time is expected to take one to three years. The crew consists of three women and three men. The team has a yearlong supply of food and water. The cuisine, which the team must be able to store for months at a time, is similar to what astronauts eat.

The 36-foot-wide (11 meters) and 20-foot-high (6 meters) solar-powered dome was set up in Hawaii near a barren volcano and includes a downstairs area with a lab, a kitchen, a common work space, an exercise area, a dining room and a bathroom. Upstairs are six small bedrooms and a bathroom. The six people who will live together in it with little to no privacy are a French astrobiologist, a German physicist, an American pilot, a soil scientist, an architect and a journalist. Their first dinner in simulated space: cheese and turkey quesadilla and all the veggies.

Good luck!

 

 

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