Setting up home on Mars

Building structures for living and working on the Moon or Mars, where there is no access to infrastructure or heavy machinery, would be a very risky, complex and costly process. The answer to these challenges lies in self-deployable habitats for extreme environments (SHEs), which have been developed through an EU-funded initiative.

One day in the near future, astronauts will explore Mars and other planets in our Solar System. These planets however are extremely hostile environments with no air, food and very little water. Staying alive will require an advanced ′space house′ capable of supplying everything the astronauts need to survive.

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