Design of Mars Underground Habitat for Human Settlement on Mars (Presentation: Video + Doc)
by Malaya Kumar Biswal M, David Gomez-Fernandez and Ramesh Naidu Annavarapu
Longer crewed mission requires extended presence either in interplanetary space or planetary bodies and this longer duration may subject to censorious survival challenges. The crew may encounter the effect of cosmic radiation and microgravity along with inevitable obstacles such as regulated temperature and pressure. Its wobbling condition may lead the crew to the hazard of hypothermia and body deformation. And this defect does exist at every interplanetary proximity standing as a fundamental prospective challenge of space survivability. Hence, concerning this ultimatum of survivability, we have presented a Mars Underground Habitat (MUH) to neutralize the thermal stability between the crew and habitation module on Mars. In this paper, we technically emphasize the achievable extent of the thermal stability with respect to the architectural configuration and its preferred location on Mars. In addition to this, we extended our discussion to define what internal and external factors influence the thermal stability along with the habitat's significance for future crewed exploratory missions beyond Mars.