It’s official: a company has just drawn up plans for the first human city on Mars, according to an ABIBOO press release.
Named Nüwa City, the first large-scale Martian settlement could house 250,000 people and be built along and on the side of a colossal cliff, where the people of Mars would have access to sunlight without risking overexposure to the sun. deadly threat from cosmic radiation.
Most importantly, ABIBOO claims that construction will begin in 2054, with the first settlers by the time of 2100.
ABIBOO’s plan for the first Martian city will be incorporated next to a cliff
Most of the new representations of the city of Nüwa represent the interiors of the rooms (and the word operative seems to be fancy) and it remains to be seen whether the 2100 target is a realistic estimate. But it is clear in the press release that ABIBOO did the job of considering how a city on Mars could function and ultimately prosper. The side of a cliff on the red planet will allow settlers to live in private homes, with other areas committed to agricultural and energy purposes, where people can raise livestock or generate energy from the sun.
The goal is to build a self-sustaining civilization on the Martian surface capable of subsisting without the need to constantly transport supplies from Earth, but no exact plans have yet been seen on how this will happen. But the road will be hard. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is less than 1% of that of Earth, the temperature is cold enough to melt tears, which is definitely clear from a person exposed to lethal radiation that would severely burn any exposed skin. to the cosmic rays.
“We’ve had to do a lot of computer-based analysis and work with scientists to try to understand what the circumstances are that we’re going to face,” said Alfredo Muñoz, founder of the ABIBOO architecture studio. “[W]We have to face very specific challenges from the conditions of Mars, one of them gravity, which is only a third of gravity on Earth. “
However, fortunately, there is CO2 and water on the surface of Mars.
The future city of Mars probably should not depend on Earth
“Water is one of the great advantages that Mars offers, it helps to get the right materials for construction,” Muñoz said. “Basically, with water and CO2, we can generate carbon, and with carbon, we can generate steel.” Critically, the ABIBOO plans to use only materials of Martian origin to build the first city on the planet.
The new Mars City project participates in a larger scientific project organized by The Mars Society, with development work by the SONet network, which is an international team of scientists and academics. “The learnings we are learning from developing a fully sustainable city on Mars give us so many ideas and knowledge about things we could do differently on Earth,” Muñoz explained.
Many people are very passionate about building a substantial human presence on Mars. From Carl Sagan to Robert Zubrin and from Mars enthusiasts to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, interest is far from waning. While some of Musk’s estimates seem unrealistic, the consensus grows that any future city on Mars will have to be self-sufficient; otherwise, the future people of the red planet will never achieve Earth independence.