// CANDIDATE WORLD — PLANET
Mars
MIDThe settlement target.
A resource-rich world with a thin atmosphere, subsurface ice, and a day close to Earth's — the primary terraforming and settlement candidate.
Schematic — not to scale
Mars is the program's centre of gravity: enough atmosphere, water, and raw material to build out, with a 24.6-hour day that eases life support and agriculture.
It is the first world where every phase — characterize, paraterraform, develop — runs end to end, funded and de-risked by the cislunar work that precedes it.
- Gravity
- 0.38 g
- Day length
- 24.6 hours
- Surface temp
- −125 °C to 20 °C
- Atmosphere
- ~0.6 kPa CO₂
- Water
- Subsurface & polar ice
- Radiation
- No magnetosphere; shielding required
CO₂ atmosphere and subsurface ice feed ISRU propellant, water, and oxygen.
A near-Earth day length simplifies controlled-environment agriculture and crew rhythm.
No global magnetic field — radiation shielding is a hard requirement for settlement.
Catalog and plan in the Orbital Foundry.
Every candidate world, scored and sequenced in one console.