House on Mars, which is precisely to build

• House on Mars, which is exactly build

NASA recently launched a competition called NASA's Centennial Challenge Mars Habitat Competition, the main idea of the project was to create a home for the researchers of the Red Planet. Team Clouds JSC in collaboration with SEArch received first place for the concept of the Ice House.

The project involves research habitat icy outer shell and the inner residential unit, created with help of 3D-printing technology. Describing the concept, the creators of Ice House emphasize the fact that the newly discovered ice on Mars, will allow the dwelling function smoothly for a long time. According to NASA reported that the number of ice on Mars has 5 million cubic kilometers. If this ice formed water, then this amount would be enough to cover the entire planet ocean depth of 35 meters.

House on Mars, which is precisely to build

Formally Ice House - is an attempt to rethink the concept of life beyond planet Earth habitable. One popular solution to the problem habitats on other planets was the creation of an inflatable dome, covered with regolith. But he does not transmit light, and long life in such circumstances can result claustrophobic and mental problems. One of the key advantages of the Ice House that as the outer and inner shell translucency. Ice selected as accidental external material. It will be the crew "shield" against the ultraviolet solar and galactic gamma radiation.

It would look like Mars is subject to the availability of water on the planet's surface (computer graphics).

Model outer housing shell.

"Yard" Ice House - the space between the inner and the outer shell, which initially does not perform any specific functions (.. That is not meant for working, sleeping or eating). The crew decides how it will serve as an intermediate space. Moreover, this area will become a buffer, absorbing the leakage of the habitable environment where the environment will be created other than Mars.