Animation on how to make 'base on Mars' a great possibility with the worst idea

by Aynur_zakirov

Aiming for Mars migration plan Many organizations such as NASA and private companies are working on technology development. As a preliminary step of moving human beings to Mars, it is necessary to make a base on Mars for experts to investigate and develop industries, but how difficult it is to "build a base on Mars" Kurzgesagt of science-based YouTube channel explains with animation.

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From the desert to the top of the mountain, the idea that a person who has changed technology from various places into a submarine terraforming Mars outside the Earth is not surprising. However, before you do Martian colonization you should remember that Mars is a tremendous environment, unimaginable.

On Mars we have polar ice caps and big valleys, and because there is water, at first glance it seems to be a place where humans live easily.

However, in reality, Mars's surface is extremely cold and it's a desert where radiation falls. The ground is toxic and humans can not breathe.

Originally Mars is not a place where people think "I want to live", but people who do early exploration of Mars face a number of challenges and are considered to be forced to live a stressful life.

One of the challenges is that Mars has less energy. Mars is located far away from the sun and solar energy is only 40% of the earth. Moreover, the solar energy tends to be hindered even by just sandstorms.

Because the atmosphere does not exist and the temperature inside Mars is too low, energy is not enough even with wind power generation or geothermal power generation.

The choice is "nuclear power generation". However, as Mars does not have easy access to radioactive elements, nuclear fuel and reactors need to be brought from the earth.

Once the setting is completed, it can provide energy to the surrounding area for several years afterwards, but even if there is energy, human beings die if they can not breathe.

So this time to the problem of breathing, air. The atmosphere of Mars is only 1% of the density of the earth, and most of it is composed of carbon dioxide.

Therefore, where people live, it is necessary to pressurize air and fill with artificial atmosphere such as oxygen and nitrogen.

In this case, the corner structures and the flat walls are affected by the difference in pressure between the inside and the outside, so the residence becomes a smooth and rounded structure. Also, in order to maintain high confidentiality, it is necessary to have an air lock functioning perfectly every time.

Furthermore, Mars has a low air density and a small magnetosphere , so half of the radiation in the universe will reach the surface of Mars. People on the surface of Mars will get 50 times more radiation than people on the Earth's surface.

Three years on the surface of Mars will exceed the upper limit of the radiation exposure dose and raise the risk of cancer greatly.

In order to avoid such a situation the structure to be a residence is covered with frozen carbon dioxide ......

If you cover it with mud, the protection effect will be high.

When it comes to the above structure, it is thought that many of the houses will be like a tunnel without windows.

Even a firmly covered structure will not block all radiation, but it will be possible for humans to survive for a long period of time.

Even if the residence is perfect, once you go outside you will not have anything to protect you, so much of the external exploration will be done centrally by remote-controllable robots.

However, since the dust particle on Mars is smaller than that on Earth, if you enter inside the robot it will destroy the machine.

Also, because it is impossible to completely remove the dust laden on the space suit ... ...

Once you return from outside, you will bring a bit of dust to the residence for a short time. The soil of Mars contains things that are poisonous for humans called perchlorate, and people are dead when they are exposed at all times.

However, this problem is settled if the space suit is stored in the entrance of the building.

Energy and safe air can be secured, yet the problem is "food"

Regarding water, you can easily obtain it by securing a base in a place with ice, such as Antarctica or Arctic ... ...

Growing plants as food is a big issue. The soil of Mars is alkaline and does not contain the necessary nitrogen to grow plants.

It is necessary to purify the soil of Mars before raising plants, but this is technically difficult and costly.

The soil that has finished purifying is fertilized by bio waste and finally the organisms will grow.

Because these processes it takes a lot of time and energy, a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics " aquaponics There is also a great potential to become as way that" is taken. In this way it is possible to get vegetables and fish together.

However, even if a number of problems are solved as described above, there remains a fundamental major problem, "Only 38% of the earth has gravity".

It is thought that a person's muscles and bones become weak due to a small gravity, and a problem with the cardiovascular system.

In the future, this problem may be solved by the development of rotary houses, but at the moment there is no other choice but to do exercise so as not to weaken the muscles and bones in an environment with small gravity.

In the process of colonization, the crews are confined in a room without windows every day, face to face with the same face, and do the same routine task with almost no contact with the outside. Because there is a possibility that the living environment on Mars may adversely affect people, crews may be able to test beforehand whether they can withstand their lives using simulators.

And the task of building the first infrastructure on Mars should be a painstaking task. It is considered that only people who decide excellent and intention will head to Mars.

The first base of Mars will be used for at least decades as long as resources, nuclear fuel, equipment parts, crew etc are sent from Earth.

As a matter of concern, the earth and Mars are separated from millions of kilometers, and because the lap time centered around the sun is different, the timing of heading from the earth to the sun will only come every two years. In other words, if problems occur on Mars, we can not send help from the earth until timing comes.

Making a base on Mars is a difficult task that humanity has never faced so far. However, once Mars' colonization progresses, many possibilities will be opened, such as traveling between planets and developing industries on orbit around Mars. "Going to Mars" requires labor but it is worth it.