A major plan to build a city simulating the living spaces of Mars in the desert of Dubai "Mars Science City Project"

In order to boost the Martian exploration and resettlement plan that mankind advances, the United Arab Emirates revealed a plan to construct a Mars simulation city covered entirely by a dome in the desert area of ​​Dubai.

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The plan named "Mars Science City Project" aims to build an artificial city that conducts studies on Martian migration in the desert near Dubai. There is a plan to create a facility that reproduces the living environment on Mars on the premises of a total area of ​​1.9 million square feet (about 17.7 hectares: 3.8 Tokyo Dome), covering it with several transparent dome.


In addition to making an environment where people can actually live in the dome, it is planned to conduct research on agricultural cultivation in rough land and energy system and water circulation system in the future.


In addition to the construction of a museum exhibiting the achievements of the human space development of the past within the facility, facilities to educate young people who will be responsible for the next space development will also be made. The building of the museum is said to be "printed" with 3D printers made of desert sand.


As a budget for this plan, UAE expects to have 150 million dollars (about 17 billion yen), but it seems that the timeline leading to completion is not yet decided because the scale is too large. He is the head of Dubai EmirateMuhammad Bin Rashed Earl MaktoumIn his statement, "UAE aims to build international cooperation on the development of technologies that will benefit humanity and aims to lay the foundation that brings a better future to several generations in the future, and in UAE We aim to gather passion for science leadership, aim to contribute to the improvement of life on the planet and development of innovative solutions to the problem that the whole plan challenges.UAE is a vision and understanding of the rapid change facing the world UAE believes the possibility that space exploitation can be hidden and cooperates with partners and leaders all over the world to improve the scientific achievement by this plan and the quality of life on the earth We are aiming to help us by linking what we need to the vision. "