Martian City for the Desert near Dubai

Bjarke Ingels Group Architects have designed a Martian Science City for the desert near Dubai.

Mars Science City designed to cover 176,000 square meters of desert outside Dubai, to develop technology to colonize the red planet.

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Mars Science City. Credit Bjarke Ingels Group

The Martian city will have the size of more than 30 football fields and cost approximately $135 million.

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Mars Science City. Credit Bjarke Ingels Group

Jonathan Eastwood, director of the Space Lab at Imperial College London, explains about the city:
“I think the biggest challenge in terms of a sustained presence on Mars is not the engineering [or scientific] challenge, but the human [and] personal one.
So not just to answer the question about how do you survive, but how do you thrive?”

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Mars Science City. Credit Bjarke Ingels Group

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Mars Science City. Credit Bjarke Ingels Group

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Mars Science City. Credit Bjarke Ingels Group

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Mars Science City. Credit Bjarke Ingels Group

via Futurism