模擬了一年火星生活 6位科學家終於"重返地球"

Six scientists have completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation.

近日，六名科學家在夏威夷一個近乎完全隔絕的圓頂屋中完成了爲期一年的火星模擬生活。

For the past year, the group in the dome on a Mauna Loa mountain could go outside only while wearing spacesuits. On Sunday, the simulation ended, and the scientists emerged.

去年一整年他們都住在位於莫納羅亞火山的圓頂屋裏，要想外出只能穿着太空服。模擬於週日結束，科學家們終於“重見天日”。

Cyprien Verseux, a crew member from France, said the simulation shows a mission to Mars can succeed.

其中一名來自法國、名叫西普里安·費爾蘇克斯的成員表示，這次模擬表明，去火星執行任務是可行的。

"I can give you my personal impression which is that a mission to Mars in the close future is realistic. I think the technological and psychological obstacles can be overcome," Verseux said.

費爾蘇克斯說道：“就我個人來說，我認爲在不遠的將來，人類登上火星可以變爲現實。我認爲技術上和心理上的困難都是可以克服的。”

Christiane Heinicke, a crew member from Germany, said the scientists succeeded in finding their own water in a dry climate.

來自德國的成員克里斯蒂娜·海因尼克表示，科學家們成功地在乾燥的氣候中找到了水源。

"Showing that it works, you can actually get water from the ground that is seemingly dry. It would work on Mars and the implication is that you would be able to get water on Mars from this little greenhouse construct," she said.

她說道：“這是可行的，你真的可以在看起來很乾燥的土地中找到水。這在火星上也可行，你可以在這個小型溫室建築裏獲得水。”

Tristan Bassingthwaighte, a doctor of architecture candidate at University of Hawaii, served as the crew's architect.

夏威夷大學建築專業在讀博士生特里斯坦·巴星懷特是整個團隊的建築師。

"The UH research going on up here is just super vital when it comes to picking crews, figuring out how people are going to actually work on different kinds of missions, and sort of the human factors element of space travel, colonization, whatever it is you are actually looking at," Bassingthwaighte said.

巴星懷特說道：“在挑選成員的時候，夏威夷大學的研究就顯得尤爲重要，要挑出能夠真正勝任不同任務的人，挑出適合太空旅行和定居的人，不管具有什麼特質，都是我們真正在尋找的人。”

Kim Binsted, principal investigator for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), said the researchers are looking forward to getting in the ocean and eating fresh produce and other foods that weren't available in the dome.

夏威夷太空探索模擬與仿真任務的首席研究員金姆·賓斯特德表示，研究人員們期待着能夠跑到大海里，還期待吃一些新鮮的食物，這些都是在圓頂屋裏做不到的。

"HI-SEAS is an example of international collaborative research hosted and run by the University of Hawaii. So it's really exciting to be able to welcome the crew back to earth and back to Hawaii after a year on Mars," Binsted said.

賓斯特德說道：“HI-SEAS是一次由夏威夷大學主導和運作的國際合作。在'火星'上待一年之後，小隊成員們終於能夠回到'地球'的夏威夷，想想真令人興奮！”