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== Mars ==

== Mars ==

Team Leads: {{Slack-user|@shreya garg=Shreya Garg|@Kylie=Kylie Holland}}

Team Leads:{{Leadership |Mars = true }}

 

In the Mars team, SSI’s newest venture, we believe that humanity is destined to move beyond Earth and settle the Solar System.  Our multidisciplinary work combines the fields of materials science, chemical engineering, civil engineering, economics, and anything else that helps our goals!  Whether you’re majoring in one of those fields or are undeclared, all you need to be a productive member of our team is a passion for interplanetary exploration.  This team is meant to be a great learning opportunity for all its members to become familiar with in situ resource utilization (ISRU) and other technologies that will build our future in space. ISRU promises to produce the resources necessary to sustain human life on other planets.  The ability to make potable water, breathable air, and construction materials in situ means that the major constraint on interplanetary missions, the need to bring massive amounts of cargo, can be sidestepped.  This would reduce the cost of a Mars mission by orders of magnitude and help expedite it.  ISRU also provides the only way for Martian settlements to be truly self-sustaining, allowing humanity to become a multiplanetary species and kickstart a new era of history.

In the Mars team, SSI’s newest venture, we believe that humanity is destined to move beyond Earth and settle the Solar System.  Our multidisciplinary work combines the fields of materials science, chemical engineering, civil engineering, economics, and anything else that helps our goals!  Whether you’re majoring in one of those fields or are undeclared, all you need to be a productive member of our team is a passion for interplanetary exploration.  This team is meant to be a great learning opportunity for all its members to become familiar with in situ resource utilization (ISRU) and other technologies that will build our future in space. ISRU promises to produce the resources necessary to sustain human life on other planets.  The ability to make potable water, breathable air, and construction materials in situ means that the major constraint on interplanetary missions, the need to bring massive amounts of cargo, can be sidestepped.  This would reduce the cost of a Mars mission by orders of magnitude and help expedite it.  ISRU also provides the only way for Martian settlements to be truly self-sustaining, allowing humanity to become a multiplanetary species and kickstart a new era of history.