After the American physicist Neil Tyson raised the controversy by publishing the complex image of one of the image processing programs for one of the branches of the famous American McDonald's chain in the Mars desert, on his Twitter platform, an important question arose between the public, which is: Can we really live onMars one day?
The first million
In fact, there are already several existing research plans that one day looks forward to achieving this goal, but we do not yet have official time schedules to conduct any of these plans. Rather, global space agencies such as NASA and the European Space Agency have not yet specified an appointment to reach humansTo Mars on the first exploratory visit.
Elon Musk, the American billionaire, founder of SpaceX, believes that by 2060 there will be a full human colony on Mars with about one million people living.
Musk speaks economically, as he sees that the tremendous progress achieved by space technology by reaching a stage in which the missiles can be reused, humans will bring closer to the era of cheap space flights, and therefore can be built a full system of missiles that go to Mars and come from the Earth, periodically to connectPeople and resources.
On the road
On the other hand, some research authorities have already started activities trying to solve the problem of residence on Mars.For example, an American company called "AI Space Factory" won a architectural competition for the Mars houses launched by NASA.
The company obtained 500 thousand dollars, and they started building their project, which is the use of huge 3D printers to build large cylindrical houses made of compound basalt and fiber, which are materials that can be found or built on Mars easily.
China is also planning a project aimed at creating lunar conditions within a closed unit on the ground, which has been designed to accept a long life for a long time without the need for external supplies.It was called "Qasr Al Qamar", and Chinese astronauts have already succeeded in spending 370 consecutive days in it.
This unit was designed so that its inhabitants get oxygen and food from the plants cultivated inside it, as well as recycling the water to purify it and use it again.
Neil Tyson has already pointed out in his series of tweets to a similar thing when he referred to the movie "The Martian" starring American actor Matt Damon, in which the astronaut Mark Whiteni spends nearly 600 days on the moon before the rescue arrives, during which he tries to create a sustainable environment.
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But even if we are able to build such projects, which is doubtful because its cost will be enormous, there are many huge problems facing the idea that people reside on the surface of Mars.
The first of these problems is related to the difference in gravity, so gravity on Mars is a third of the earth, and this will negatively affect the bones and muscles of humans, and there are great possibilities for osteoporosis and cardiovascular problems.
On the other hand, Mars has a weaker magnetic cover than Earth, and therefore it is not able to protect the surface of the planet from the cosmic radiation coming from space, which may cause many diseases.
But despite this, the dreams of Neil Tyson and Elon Makek remain possible, as the progress made by humans in technical ranges is enrolled tremendously, and the development that has occurred in a century that can happen in only 10 years of future, so we do not know what can happenBy 2060.