{"id":1431,"date":"2014-05-10T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2014-05-10T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T18:04:22","slug":"research-uncovering-the-mysteries-of-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/research-uncovering-the-mysteries-of-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Research uncovering the mysteries of the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1426\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HI-SEAS_Ross-e1399744178787.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1426\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HI-SEAS_Ross-e1399744178787.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Lockwood (second from the left) lives inside this dome habitat since March 28, and will only leave in four months. (Credit: Hawaii Space Exploration Analog &amp; Simulation)\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Lockwood (second from the left) lives inside this dome habitat since March 28, and will only leave in four months. (Credit: Hawaii Space Exploration Analog &amp; Simulation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">University of Alberta\u00a0PhD candidate Ross Lockwood is one of six team members currently camped 8,000 ft. above sea level on the side of a Hawaiian volcano. They are working to advance our understanding of Mars and its potential for life, and have chosen this location for its likeness to the Red Planet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The team is part of the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) program, a NASA-funded University of Hawaii project aimed at understanding the psychological effects of an extended space mission, such as a trip to Mars. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lockwood arrived five weeks ago and will be living inside of a domed habitat for four months as part of the research.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He often updates his <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ross.lockwood\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosslockwood\" target=\"_blank\">twitter account<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and his <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/spincrisis.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ualberta.ca\/newsarticles\/2014\/may\/research-uncovering-the-mysteries-of-the-red-planet\" target=\"_blank\">Research<\/a> being conducted by\u00a0the\u00a0University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/rosslockwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Lockwood<\/a>, University of Alberta, Alberta<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Alberta\u00a0PhD candidate Ross Lockwood is one of six team members currently camped 8,000 ft. above sea level on the side of a Hawaiian volcano. They are working to advance our understanding of Mars and its potential for life, and have chosen this location for its likeness to the Red Planet. The team is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[180,1351,51,1350,1348,1349,533],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-alberta","tag-habitat","tag-health","tag-life-on-mars","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/HI-SEAS_Ross-e1399744178787.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-n5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}