{"id":197511,"date":"2025-06-19T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197511\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:58:14","slug":"life-on-mars-humans-will-live-in-huge-space-oases-on-the-red-planet-in-just-15-years-european-space-agency-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197511\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on Mars: Humans will live in huge ‘space oases’ on the Red Planet in just 15 years, European Space Agency predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a future where humans live in huge ‘space oases’ on Mars<\/a> \u2013 luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robots<\/a> are sent into the vast Martian wilderness, where they explore without the risk of exhaustion, radiation poisoning or dust contamination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enormous space stations and satellites are manufactured in orbit, AI<\/a> is trusted to make critical decisions, and the whole solar system<\/a> is connected by a vast internet network.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While this sounds like science-fiction, the European Space Agency (ESA) hopes it will become a reality in just 15 years.<\/p>\n

In a new report, the agency \u2013 which represents more than 20 countries including the UK \u2013 outlines an ambitious vision for space exploration by 2040.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘By 2040, we envision a resilient European presence across Earth’s orbits and the solar system,’ it says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Expanding into space is not a luxury but a necessity and space is no longer a frontier \u2013 it is a territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It unlocks unknown resources that open new markets and enable scientific breakthroughs.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Imagine <\/p>\n

Imagine a future where humans live in huge ‘space oases’ on Mars – luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food (AI depiction)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In just 15 years from now, human astronauts will roam Mars in practical spacesuits, living and sleeping in protective domes. Pictured, a digital imagining from the ESA report<\/p>\n

The new report, ‘Technology 2040: A Vision For The European Space Agency’, shows the public where ESA wants to be ‘in the decades to come and the directions for how to get there’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of its vision, in just 15 years’ time, humans will dwell in ‘plentiful’ habitats called ‘space oases’ in Earth’s orbit and also on the moon, Mars and far beyond.<\/p>\n

These white domes will protect humans from cosmic radiation, offering a place for them to sleep, eat and work between trips outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They will be utterly\u00a0self-sustaining habitats, creating their own power and food, making resupply missions from Earth a thing of the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than ever before on Earth, humans will rely on autonomous technology akin to the droids in Star Wars to explore the vast planet,\u00a0about 4,212 miles in diameter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much like 2015 film ‘The Martian’, plants will thrive in glass-ceilinged greenhouses, giving us foods like potatoes, rice, fungus, tomatoes, and leafy greens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ESA says the habitats must protect astronauts from the harsh conditions outside, calling for ‘smart radiation shielding materials’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They will be packed with high-tech sensing capabilities to forecast, monitor and mitigate variable hazards such as incoming space rocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ESA <\/p>\n

ESA describes ‘space oases’ as ‘autonomous’ self-sustaining habitats, creating their own power and food, making resupply missions from Earth a thing of the past<\/p>\n

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Much like Matt Damon’s character in ‘The Martian’ (pictured), humans will tend to plants in glass-ceilinged greenhouses, giving us foods like potatoes, rice, fungus, tomatoes, and leafy greens\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Mars <\/p>\n

Mars is the fourth planet from the sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a thin atmosphere. Pictured, Mars captured by the Hubble telescope <\/p>\n

Mars:\u00a0Facts and figures <\/p>\n