The Mars SUBsPaCe

The Mars VerSatile Underground Building ProjeCt (Mars SUBsPaCe) is a habitat designed to support a large population of people on Mars in a substainable and scalable manner. We believe an underground habitat has significant advantages over above ground structures. Being underground means that the surrounding material offers somekind of protection against the increased cosmic radiaition due to the thinner Martian atmosphere. The surrounding material around the habitat also serve as instulation preventing heat loss. Since the structure is expanding underground, the above-ground profile of the habitat is small. This reduces the problem posed by violent dust storm and meteorite strikes.

The design of SUBsPaCe is based on the working principle of an earth auger. It consists of a central shaft surrounded by a helical structure. At the base of the central shaft there is a massive boring head to remove the material from beneath it. Similarly there are four overlapping boring heads at the en