# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BI7W7oWBgZ6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346589-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/91d8e314d6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-08-10T12:02:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

#Aquanauts away. On 21 July, a crew of six astronauts splashed down in scuba gear into the Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater #research station 19 meters below the waves off the coast of Florida. The team’s 16 day mission, NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO), will test gadgets and skills for a future trip to #Mars.

It’s the 21st mission of its kind since #NEEMO began in 2001. This time, communications between the crew and ground control imitate the delay between Mars and Earth – about 15 minutes in each direction. The aquanauts wear an experimental headset called mobiPV that streams video back to base and lets them talk hands-free. The close quarters of the #Aquarius station mimic the conditions of a space station or spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Karl Shreeves #explore #ocean #nasa #beautiful

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## Tags

neemo, aquarius, aquanauts, nasa, research, ocean, mars, beautiful, explore

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