HI-SEAS Mauna Loa

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Another HI-SEAS "Mars" mission on Mauna Loa began February 15th, 2018. The four participants have been inside their domed habitat since Thursday, not unlike like the rest of us since the torrential rain and thunderstorm system arrived over Puna. Hopefully however, we'll be able to get out and about sooner than they do:

At 5 p.m. Hawaii local time on Thursday (Feb. 15), the four participants of the HI-SEAS Mission VI crew, who herald from Korea, Australia, Slovakia and Scotland, respectively, began their eight-month stay inside a dome habitat atop Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii...

"For humans to successfully undertake a long-duration spaceflight to Mars, it will require a global collaboration, and so it seems appropriate that our Mission VI begins with this spirit of internationalism," said Kim Binsted, HI-SEAS Principal Investigator, in the statement by the University of Hawaii, where HI-SEAS is based.
https://www.space.com/39732-hiseas-vi-ma...egins.html

Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting