Nüwa Presentation - The Sustainable Offworld Network

Presentation of Nüwa at the Mars Society Competition 2020Nüwa is a sustainable city on Mars desiged by SONet (The Sustainable offworld Network). Learn more about SONet and Nüwa at: www.sonet-hub.com www.abiboo.com/projects/nuwa/ Twitter: @SONet_hu

The Nüwa Concept. A development model for a self-sustainable city on Mars

20 pages, 35 figuresThe spacecraft in which we have traveled for eight months has just landed gently on the surface. Passengers stared at each other in disbelief, still feeling numb from the brutality of the supersonic retropropulsion during the braked descent. It seems unbelievable... We are on Mars! Many of us have arrived in recent years. Thousands upon thousands of people traveling from our comfortable blue home to the uncertain red dream. The promise of a new world. An opportunity to rethink everything, in order not to repeat the same mistakes. Beyond the polarized glass windows, the light of the Martian dawn spills over Tempe Mensa. The Sun is a small golden circle, surrounded by two bright points: Venus and the Earth. A few kilometers from the spaceport, the gigantic extensions of the greenhouses domes are outlined. Beyond, the land descends steeply down the south-facing cliff. On its vertical walls awaits Nüwa, the wonderful city that leads the accelerated settlement of Mars. Its name recalls the goddess who protects humans. And, certainly, the city protects and provides us with everything we need. Now, I’ll become part of Mars; I will dissolve into Nüwa, and join all those that give life to it. And we will become Nüwa, foreve