Scientists Draw up Plan to Colonize Mars

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By Amber Jorgenson
Sep 12, 2018 9:20 PMNov 3, 2019 6:59 PM
Mars research dome
An artist's illustration of the proposed Mars base. (Credit: Claudio Leonardi/EPFL)

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The idea of building a base to colonize Mars and become an interplanetary species has seen decades of talk and not a whole lot of action, but now at least there’s plan.

On September 10, researchers from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a Switzerland university and research center, laid out a step-by-step guide to creating a sustainable research facility on Mars. Their specific plan outlines how we would get there, set up camp and create an environment that would be habitable in the long term. By adopting this strategy, researchers could finally start planning humanity’s long-awaited trip to the Red Planet.

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