# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CKXFlUPAX49
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15341978-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-01-22T20:30:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

NEEMO - the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project - is a nasa analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers, and scientists to live in Aquarius, the world's only undersea research station, for up to three weeks at a time. Operated by Florida International University (FIU), Aquarius is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The Aquarius habitat and its surroundings provide a convincing analog for space exploration.

Much like space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. NEEMO crew members, known as aquanauts, experience some of the same challenges there that they would on a distant asteroid, planet, or moon. #Artemis team nasaastronauts Jessica Watkins (astro_watkins) and Kjell Lindgren (astro_kjell) were part of the NEEMO-23 and NEEMO-22 crews, respectively.

Image Credit: NASA/Karl Shreeves

#nasa #space #exploration #astronauts #aquanauts

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aquanauts, nasa, astronauts, space, artemis, exploration

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