HI-SEAS DIARY OF A MARTIAN
All About Space heads to Hawaii to take part in a mission with HI-SEAS, an analogue Mars mission Reported by Chelsea Gohd ©HI-SEAS/James Ward I awoke hours before dawn, stretched myself into a lucid state and put on my shoes. I was ready to go to Mars.
On 2 November 2020 I boarded a plane in Newark, New Jersey, headed for Kona, Hawaii, ready for two weeks on ‘Mars’. But for me the trip to the Red Planet didn’t take that long, as instead of travelling 190 million kilometres (119 million miles) to the real thing, I instead journeyed to the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) research facility, located on the slopes of Mauna Loa, a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii,…
