{"id":28349,"date":"2016-07-27T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/mars-colonists-must-live-off-the-land-nasa-report"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:17","slug":"mars-colonists-must-live-off-the-land-nasa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/mars-colonists-must-live-off-the-land-nasa-report","title":{"rendered":"Mars Colonists Must \u2018Live Off the Land\u2019: NASA Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-colonists-must-live-off-the-land-nasa-report.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long-term human <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/32325-nasa-mars-colony-crewed-mission-outlook.html\">colonization of Mars<\/a> is feasible, as long as Red Planet pioneers \u201clive off the land,\u201d a recent NASA report concludes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are massive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/22342-how-to-live-on-mars-colony-technology.html\">resources on Mars<\/a> obtainable from the atmosphere and extracted from the regolith which are capable of supporting human colonization,\u201d write the authors of the report, which is called \u201cFrontier In-Situ Resource Utilization for Enabling Sustained Human Presence on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using Martian resources, existing technologies could supply water, oxygen, fuel and building materials, the report adds, \u201cto relax the dependence on Earth during the buildup of a colony on Mars.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/23762-manned-mars-mission-ideas.html\">Red Planet or Bust: 5 Crewed Mars Mission Ideas<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33563-nasa-mars-colonization-plan.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/33563-nasa-mars-colonization-plan.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term human colonization of Mars is feasible, as long as Red Planet pioneers \u201clive off the land,\u201d a recent NASA report concludes. \u201cThere are massive resources on Mars obtainable from the atmosphere and extracted from the regolith which are capable of supporting human colonization,\u201d write the authors of the report, which is called \u201cFrontier In-Situ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66771,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28349\/revisions\/66771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}