Life on Mars? Coming soon

摘要

MORE than 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied to spend the rest of their lives on Mars as part of a ￡6bn project funded by television rights. This vast number will be whittled down to a few teams of four, whc will undergo eight years of training before a public vote decides which team will set off to the red planet in 2022. Mars One is a not-for-profit foundation aiming to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars from 2023. Settlement rovers would begin to build the settlement in 2018 in a spot far enough north to contain water, equatorial enough for maximum solar power, and flat enough for construction. Oxygen would be produced from the water in the soil and from plant systems.