The director of the “Mars 2117” program at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, Adnan Al-Rayes, said that the Mars Science City will serve as a platform for developing research and technology to help us in our future missions to the planet Mars.
He added, "We want to create new and developed facilities to help the international community reach the Red Planet."
The partner in the BJ Park Group, which designs a prototype for a city that simulates life on Mars, then adapted it for use in the Emirati desert, Jacob Lang, revealed that he and his team are planning to overcome the challenges imposed by the Red Planet to maintain a comfortable temperature and a good air pressure. For housing.
He said that the scientific city of Mars will consist of compact (biomedical) domes, each covering a transparent polyethylene film. The oxygen is produced by delivering electrical energy to the ice underground.
He added: «In this way the oxygen will fill the domes. As the population of Mars grows, so will the resemblance of villages, eventually forming rings. "The city will be operated and heated using solar energy, while the delicate atmosphere will help the domes maintain their temperature."
Dubai aspires to create its most ambitious architectural project, which it announced in 2017, which is to design and construct the city of Mars, in preparation for achieving the dream of the Emirates to reach Mars.
Architects sharpen their imagination of what Mars might look like, and plan to recreate it in the desert outside Dubai.
The city is expected to occupy an area of 176,000 square meters of desert, with an area of more than 30 soccer fields, at a cost of approximately $ 135 million.
The city is affiliated with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, in Dubai, and the relevant authorities have asked a group, Parkes Angeles, to design a prototype for a city that simulates life on Mars and then adapt it for use in the Emirati desert.
Architects had to overcome the enormous challenges of creating a design that made Mars' habitat habitable. Mars has a delicate atmosphere free of magnetic field, and little protection from harmful radiation. Temperature is another problem, as the average temperature on Mars is 63 degrees. The thin atmosphere also means that there is little air pressure, so the fluids quickly evaporate into gas. In spite of the temperatures that reach the level of freezing, the unprotected human blood will boil on the surface of Mars.
"Because there is very little atmosphere on Mars, the heat transfer will be very slow, which means that the air inside the domes will not cool as fast as it cools on Earth," says Lang.
The buildings will be created in 3D printing under the domes, using the soil of Mars, and the rooms extend 20 feet under the ground, to protect against harmful radiation and meteorites.
"In your home on Mars, you will have windows under the ground, and what looks like fish tanks, fish will swim in," says Lang.
Water windows will protect the residents from radiation, while allowing light to enter the rooms underground.
Martian architecture does not adhere to Earth's physics, but can take on a whole new form.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center says that the scientific city of Mars is still in the concept stage, and that it has not yet settled on a design or an architect for the final construction.
On Earth, the domes will not require pressure or oxygen, and the buildings will be created in 3D printing from the desert sands instead of the Martian soil. But the skylights will still exist, and will also work with solar energy. As for Beige Design, in addition to research laboratories, Mars Science City will have an educational facility, museum, amphitheater and a shared office space. There is no timetable for the construction to start, or when it will be opened, but the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center says that a detailed study of the specifications is underway.
The Mars Science City is only part of the ambitious space program run by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai. Last year, the UAE sent the first astronaut into space. This summer, it will launch a probe to Mars, and in November the center will do its first mission to simulate the space environment. The eight-month project will take place in Russia, and an Emirati member of the crew will be selected as part of an international team of six people. The mission will test the effects of isolation and confinement on mental and physical health.
Other places on Earth used to simulate conditions for space missions include the Concordia station in Antarctica, which is used to simulate isolation in the Mojave Desert, California, used by NASA to test Mars vehicles, and the Moroccan desert, used by the European Space Agency to simulate the Mars environment.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center hopes that such a mission will take place in the future in Mars Science City.
176 thousand square meters area of the scientific city of Mars.
Martian architecture does not adhere to Earth's physics, but can take on a whole new shape.