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The NASA Mars simulation that took place in Hawaii ended today, where the six members of the crew lived in complete isolation for an entire year.

The simulation which started on August 29, 2015, had six people live in complete isolation, without privacy, fresh water or fresh food.

The study was funded by NASA but completed by the University of Hawaii and is to be the longest so far, previous to the Russian mission which lasted for 520 days.

After their one year experience, the members of the crew said that a mission on Mars is now definitely possible.

“I can give you my personal impression which is that a mission to Mars in the close future is realistic,” said Cyprien Verseux, one of the crew members. “I think the technological and psychological obstacles can be overcome.”

As they were getting out of the dome they lived in for exactly one year, the crew received a very warm welcome.

The six had to live for an entire year in the same dome, without fresh food or water, but that was not the hardest thing they had to do, according to their declaration, but having to spend the entire time with one another, without any privacy.

At their welcome table, pizza or bananas were not excluded, foods that the six of them enjoyed very much.

The crew was made out of German physicist, a French astrobiologist and four Americans, a journalist, an architect, a soil scientist and a pilot and the hole experiment had to do with the human element of exploration.

The six had to eat foods such as canned tuna or powder cheese and sleep in a small sleeping cot with only a desk inside.