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VIENNA, 22 November (UN Information Service) — Living on Mars is a risky activity that does not allow for mistakes, says one of the teams that participated in the project “Design of a Base on Mars”.

Mars planners are increasingly treating ice not just as a resource to drink or split for rocket fuel, but as a structural material that could shape the first real neighborhoods on another world.

This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Life on Mars? Architects Lead the Way to Designing for Mars With Virtual Reality." If an architecture firm is lucky, it can ...