{"id":12847,"date":"2018-08-18T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=12847"},"modified":"2018-10-30T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:40:01","slug":"a-deep-ocean-dive-is-training-nasa-for-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/a-deep-ocean-dive-is-training-nasa-for-space\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deep Ocean Dive Is Training NASA For Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is exploring a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii as a test run for human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond. The mission, dubbed SUBSEA, or Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog, will examine microbial life on the L\u014d`ihi seamount. The mission has two objectives. The first is to learn about the operational and communication challenges of a real space mission through a deep ocean dive. A team of operations specialists and scientists at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Inner Space Center will serve as \u2018mission control,\u2019 while scientists on the Nautilus ship operating a deep ocean robot will stand in for astronauts orbiting Mars, controlling a surface rover.\u00a0The second goal of the SUBSEA mission is to learn more about the geology and chemistry that support life in the deep ocean, as a glimpse of what alien life might require in places like the oceans of Saturn\u2019s moon Enceladus. In this segment, NASA geobiologist and SUBSEA principal investigator Darlene Lim, oceanographer <strong>Julie Huber<\/strong> and volcanologist Shannon Kobs-Nawotniak join Ira to explain this hunt for weird life in the oceans\u2014and what it could teach us about the search for life in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is exploring a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii as a test run for human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond. The mission, dubbed SUBSEA, or Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog, will examine microbial life on the L\u014d`ihi seamount. The mission has two objectives. The first is to learn about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12848,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12847\/revisions\/12848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12847"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=12847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}