Growing crops
Proposed production of food and oxygen through vegetation.
Mars Challenge / Projects / M.L.C.S.
National winners · Reto Marte 2023Grow life.
Mars Life Care System
M.L.C.S.
Grow life.
Care for resources.
A Puerto Rican team proposed connected ecological domes to explore food, oxygen and circular resource management on Mars.
- Edition
- 2023 · Reto Marte
- Country
- Puerto Rico
- Recognition
- National winners
- Focus
- Habitats and sustainability
01 · The challenge
How can life be sustained with limited resources?
The 2023 challenge asked how six people could survive for two years on Mars. M.L.C.S. focused on food production and the environmental conditions of a habitat.
02 · The solution
Connected domes. Resources in circulation.
The project proposes domes with complementary functions. The original page describes an ecological proposal; it does not document an operational facility on Mars.
Resource cycles
Water recycling, waste management, and temperature and humidity control.
Growing conditions
Proposed study of soil conditions and ecosystem viability.
The design brings food, environmental conditions and resource use into a single habitat proposal.
03 · Earth-Back Thinking
Design a habitat. Rethink how we care for Earth.
The Mars–Earth connection lies in learning to produce and recover resources when the environment demands that every cycle counts.
On Mars
Explore a habitat with plant production and less reliance on external supplies.
On Earth
Investigate models for dry regions, disaster recovery and environmental education.
Potential applications described by the team, rather than measured impact outcomes.
Historical project · 2023 edition
Mars Life Care System
The team’s conceptual vision combines education, science and sustainability to imagine living models for different contexts.
04 · Puerto Rico
The people behind the project.
10 members bringing different areas of knowledge to the same question.
Yatniel Vázquez Díaz
Upper secondary education
Coralis Pagán Curet
Nursing sciences
Emannuel Gallardo Morales
Business administration · Management
Neiel Marrero Arce
Upper secondary education
Pedro J. Hernández Riveran
Administration · Accounting
Ginette Campos Martínez
Administration sciences
William Medina Román
Upper secondary education
Jehu Martínez Guerra
Upper secondary education
Eduardo A. Saldaña Centeno
Upper secondary education
Mia Sophia Ortiz Colón
Upper secondary education
Authorship, source and scope
Project and authorship: team Mars Life Care System. Country: Puerto Rico. Edition: Reto Marte 2023. Recognition: national winners, according to the original Mars Challenge project page.
A descriptive presentation preserving authorship and source. It does not reproduce technical documentation or attribute clinical, radiological or commercial outcomes.
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