Firm Wants to Build Underground Caves on Mars Using Robots
- 11 years ago
A German architecture firm is working to create an underground colony on Mars.
A German architectural firm is working to create an underground colony on the red planet, Mars.
Basically the company is planning for a large network of caverns that will be situated below the surface of the planet. This colony will serve as the first neighborhood so to speak in which the initial occupants of the planet will reside.
Although technology in its current state isn’t quite enough to accomplish the future colony, the firm hopes that within the next decade, the first stage can begin.
Initially a robot-filled rocket will be sent off to Mars. Those solar-powered robotic contraptions will basically do all the work, carving caves into the basalt bedrock.
The robots will be programmed to choose the best areas; in places where the bedrock had cooled. The interiors will resemble a cathedral. The robots will then weave webs of basalt fibers for floor and level formation.
A spokesperson for the firm stated “Curiosity sooner or later will bring human to Mars and wouldn't it be nice to have permanent station to explore it? It seems pretty logical to use caves as the main protective structure of the colony.”
A German architectural firm is working to create an underground colony on the red planet, Mars.
Basically the company is planning for a large network of caverns that will be situated below the surface of the planet. This colony will serve as the first neighborhood so to speak in which the initial occupants of the planet will reside.
Although technology in its current state isn’t quite enough to accomplish the future colony, the firm hopes that within the next decade, the first stage can begin.
Initially a robot-filled rocket will be sent off to Mars. Those solar-powered robotic contraptions will basically do all the work, carving caves into the basalt bedrock.
The robots will be programmed to choose the best areas; in places where the bedrock had cooled. The interiors will resemble a cathedral. The robots will then weave webs of basalt fibers for floor and level formation.
A spokesperson for the firm stated “Curiosity sooner or later will bring human to Mars and wouldn't it be nice to have permanent station to explore it? It seems pretty logical to use caves as the main protective structure of the colony.”