| Mars Lava Tube Pressurization Project |
 ZAarchitects is an advisory board member of 4th Planet Logistics. 4th Planet Logistics creates and tests various habitats from naturally occurring terrestrial lava tubes analogous to the Moon and Mars. The advantage of this approach is that it reduces the amount of construction materials required to be placed in orbit and then relocated on a lunar and/ormartian surface. Currently, 4th Planet Logistics’ objective is an evaluation of the practicality of pressurizing terrestrial lava tubes directly by creating atmospheric barriers that utilize the lava tube’s naturally occurring regime as a primary or secondary structural shell. This approach will involve the use of 3D printable, locally derived, geological materials and complementary robotic assembly techniques. Mars Lava Tube Pressurization Project (MLTPP) The Mars Lava Tube Pressurization Project’s (MLTPP) efforts approaches the establishment of base facilities on the Moon and Mars via naturally occurring lava tubes to serve as habitable zones for human exploration and settlement. By providing a naturally occurring means of protecting inhabitants from dangerous levels of radiation and undesirables; lava tubes also offer future explorers a way togreatly reduce the time, resources and effort needed to initially construct safe and practical habitat and other pressurized support facilities such as greenhouses and maintenance enclosures.
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