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The thing in the planning of the stable space stations for the other planets. Is to advance step by step. The first step is to create the technology that would use in those projects.
And the Moon would be the perfect place for testing the technology that makes the other space station projects possible. The thing is that if there are some errors and problems in the structures or some solutions. Those things are easier to fix on the Moon than on Mars.
But the beginning of the project is on the Earth. There must make many social and structural tests for making the structures that can work on the moon's surface. Researchers can take the next step. When the systems and structures work on the moon stations. And they are proven safe. Similar concepts can send to Mars.
The planet Mars is far, far away from the Earth. And that means the crews and other functions must be more independent.
From Mars is a long way to home if there are malfunctions. The moonbase can evacuate immediately. If there are rescue capsules. In some concepts, the life-support modules and crew cabins are the rescue capsules that can launch back to Earth if something goes wrong.
The first step on the route to make the stable stations to other planets is to make the mock-up system on the Earth. And then that thing would continue that the station would establish to some remote-areas like Antarctica and the floor of Ocean where it tested things like what kind of crew should go to the Moon.
Image II: Mars (and Moon) simulation base in the Gobi Desert outside Jinchang, Gansu Province, China
Remote areas like deserts are also suitable places for testing the social construction of the crew. And those mock-up stations would work in a scientific role. Their crews can collect scientific data from their environment. In those desert and ocean stations could test things like nutrient support and airlocks.
The key element is that the engineers are testing technology will develop as ready as possible on the Earth. Then the next step would be on the Moon and in the distant future to Mars and other planets.
Creating the base on the surface of another planet is not without problems. There is the possibility that the seismic quakes can cause damages to the structures and destroy the station.
Below the surface of Mars is carbon dioxide pockets that can vaporize. And that thing causes the collapse of the structure. But if we are thinking of the positions like the surface of the Jupiter moons. The problem is that there are oceans below the surface of those moons.
The tidal waves of those oceans can break the ice core of the moon. And there is also the possibility that in those oceans are some primitive bacteria that can infect the crew.
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/nasa-engineer-moon-city
Image: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a28364235/nasa-moonbase/
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