A crew of four people—the second in the span of a month—exited the simulated Mars habitat on the Biosphere 2 campus Monday morning after a six-day mission.
SAM, the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars, is an"experimental prototype" designed to help study how people might live in a controlled, pressurized environment on a planetary surface away from Earth.
"One of the things that was different from the original objective, was that, initially I had planned to do a training profile of the entire habitat. Of the carbon dioxide, that resonates throughout the entire habitat," Haroon said in a news conference after the crew was released.
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