NASA showed a Mars simulator in which four volunteers will live for a whole year (8 photos + 1 video)
Participants in the experiment will have to deal with a bunch of difficulties: from emotional to technical, when watching them scientists will disable the equipment. 
NASA decided to set up a new experiment: within the framework of the project Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) four people throughout the year will live in a simulator of Mars. simulated version printed on a 3D printer. 
The simulator is located at the NASA Space Center in Houston. The 160 square meter Mars Dune Alpha module consists of several compartments. There is a kitchen, a living room, an area for a medical examination, leisure, fitness and work, as well as a station for growing food. 
However, participants will occasionally have to deal with equipment failures and shortages of various resources. 
Such difficulties, according to the organizers of the experiment, await those who visit Mars for the first time. Of course, in the simulator these difficulties will be created artificially in order to observe the behavior and state people in a situation close to real (more precisely, possibly real). 
On the left - the floor plan of the simulator, on the right - a vertical greenhouse for growing greens and vegetables
Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog Project (CHAPEA) is planned for the sake of conducting several experiments, as well as within one of them, specialists will monitor the physical and the emotional state of volunteers in conditions of prolonged isolation. All developments will help create methods for maintaining health for real colonists who someday will fly to Mars.
Who will become a participant in this experiment is still unknown - the agency said the selection "will be in line with standard criteria for NASA astronaut candidates” with an emphasis on knowledge in the field science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
