Mars base

Why It's Hard

Mars is very similar to earth’s moon. Ice growing on the poles, valleys, water underground, and a day barely longer than earth. But the downside is that Mars is a radioactive, freezing, desert. It will be really hard to build a Mars base and colonists will have to set up an outpost so they can prepare mars for colonization. But there are some problems the first being that it’s hard to get energy on mars. Mars is far from the sun and gets a lot of dust storms so solar won’t work. Mars has almost no atmosphere and is cold so thermal and wind energy will not work. The habitats can’t be flat because they would be weak so they will be rounded to handle the pressure. Most of the radiation reaches the surface so a person on mars would be taking in 50 times more radiation than on earth this increases cancer risks super high.

How To Make It Work

So we would have to use nuclear technology but mars have no nuclear elements so the fuel will be sent from the earth along with the reactor. The habitats also have to have a pressurized and have artificial atmospheres made with nitrogen and oxygen. Without an extensive magnetosphere or a dense atmosphere. To prevent the habitats will being covered in frozen CO2 and mars dirt, CO2 can be gathered from the atmosphere. But there be no window so it will have lights. The crew might have to stay inside while remote-controlled robots do the outside work. But mars dust is another problem it is much smaller than our dust so can find its way into the robots and because it’s also dry it’s electrostatically charged and sticks to everything, like space suits. It will be impossible to not carry it into the habitats. So, maybe the suit never enters the habitats and instead sits outside attached to the habitats. To grow the food we can get water from the poles of mars in ice form, we will have to decontaminate the soil which is difficult and expensive, then the soil can be fertilized with recycled biological waste, all of this takes a really long time so we might grow plant and fish together, expanding the diets of astronauts. But because mars have only 38 percent less gravity than earth the crew will have to exercise a lot, but that might be solved in the future with rotating habitats. The crew will have a shift going back to earth every few years after staying in a dark, tight area for a long time.

And that’s how you can make a mars base that can survive for at least a few years as long as it gets constant resources. The video I watched said there is one travel window every two years but I think there is another by waiting half a year going the other way and mars will come to you as the cycle repeats. Having a moon base will also help supply the mars base.

Building a Mars base is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!