Concept art · AI-generatedA guide to life on another world
Humanson Mars
Mars is 232.3 million km from Earth right now. What would it take, and what would it feel like, to live there?
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Concept art · AI-generated01 · Calling home
12 min 55 s
For a message to reach Earth today
Light is the speed limit. A conversation with family becomes an exchange of letters.
Send a message
Concept art · AI-generated02 · Gravity
38%
Of the pull you feel on Earth
Your mass stays the same. Every step, lift and fall would feel different.
Weigh yourself on Mars
Concept art · AI-generated03 · Time
687Earth days
In one Martian year
Birthdays come roughly every 23 months. How old would you be?
Find your Mars age
Concept art · AI-generated04 · Living there
Every breath, sip and meal would be engineered
Air, water, food and shelter from radiation would all have to be made, recycled or dug up on site. We explain what has been demonstrated, what is only planned, and what nobody knows yet.
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Three ways to imagine Mars
Tool 01
Mars gravity
Enter your mass and see the force you would feel on the Martian surface.
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Message to Earth
Today's Earth–Mars distance and how long your words would travel.
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Your Mars age
Your age in Martian years and sols, and the date of your next Mars birthday.
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Facts, plans, models and scenes
Every page separates four things: facts backed by evidence, plans attributed to whoever announced them, models that show their inputs, and imagined scenes labelled as such. No countdowns to a migration date that nobody has demonstrated.