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Whitefish soil scientist Carmel Johnston, 26, is the crew commander for the fourth mission of The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS). Pictured is the crew en route to their "habitat," a solar-powered geodesic dome located on the slopes of the Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii (from left to right) Johnston, Chief Scientific Officer and Crew Physicist Christiane Heinicke; Chief Engineering Officer Andrzej Stewart; Health Science and Habitat Journalist Sheyna Gifford; Crew Biologist Cyprien Verseux and Crew Architect Tristan Bassingthwaighte. (Photo courtesy of Pete Roma)