NASA announced a design competition Mars base

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with the manufacturer of 3D-printers MakerBot announced a design competition Mars base MakerBot Mars Base Challenge . The competition can take part of any user of the site Thingiverse, regardless of their place of residence and education.

Winners selected by the jury, made up of employees JPL and MakerBot, in accordance with the criteria: scientific feasibility, value creative and technical ability to print base. Probably, it is assumed that the database will be printed on 3D-printers.

Projects for the competition take until June 12. To receive a prize, participants must be over 12 years old. The winner will receive the printer MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D and three coils of plastic MakerBot Filament. For second place - two coils of plastic, for the third - one.

All participants must publish the design of the database in the relevant section directory Thingiverse. The contest started on May 30, now there are about 80 works. Below - some of the latest projects.

Of course, NASA does not promise that it will build a database by the design, which won the contest. Rather, it is a project for the promotion of science and society to prepare for what will soon have to populate the second planet. By the way, on Mars may have caves up to 100 meters in depth , so that the first settlers to colonize logically it is there, it's natural protection from micrometeorites and solar radiation.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/225739/