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    Jan 21, 2021 4 minutes

    Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars

    Kate Greene

    Icon Books £14.99 • HB

    HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is a geodesic dome isolated on the slopes of Mauna Loa, a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. From 2013 to 2018 it was used by NASA for six ‘analog missions’ – field tests in locations that have physical similarities to space environments – to Mars. Crews of ‘almost astronauts’ remained in complete isolation for up to a year, in conditions as close as possible to those expected of a small crew on the Red Planet.

    This book follows the first of those missions, which took place over four months in 2013 and which studied, among

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