Students of the Wrocław University of Technology developed a project of the Martian colony for the Mars Society competition

24.04.2019

Students and PhD students under research initiative „Space is More” and the Scorpio Project with the help of members of the MOS Scientific Circle and the LabDigiFab initiative of the Wrocław University of Technology have prepared a Mars base project for the contest announced by the Mars Society.

The competition task was to create a Martian colony project for a thousand people. The designed housing estate must be economically self-sufficient. It should import as little as possible of goods from Earth, and at the same time produce goods for export, in order to have earnings.

Wrocław constructors named their colony “Twardowsky”. They have been working on it since October, and on the last stage of the work the whole group spent in the Lunares Research Base, where they elaborated their solution in the smallest details.

The authors of the best projects will receive prizes – 10, 5, and 2.5 thousand dollars. In addition, the top 20 works will be published in the book “Mars Colonies: Plans for Settling The Red Planet”.
More: https://pwr.edu.pl/uczelnia/aktualnosci/studenci-pwr-opraca-projekt-marsjanskiej-kolonii-dla-tysiaca-mieszkancow-11173.html


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