Abstract: Humanity has orbited, landed on, and roved and inspected Mars, with new insights into Mars's internal structure and environmental studies including weathers, climates and others. Based on the latest probing and data analysis of Mars's resources, Mars's livability and feasibility for establishing bases are analyzed. In view of China's unmanned and manned Mars mission probes in the future, the analysis of main functions of Mars's resources is carried out from the following five aspects: (ⅰ) preparing water, oxygen, plants, and other life support materials; (ⅱ) preparing propellants; (ⅲ) preparing wind, solar and other powers; (ⅳ) building infrastructure with blocks, 3D printing or others; (ⅴ) in-situ manufacturing of metals, chemical engineering materials and products. Considering the features of Mars' resources and the practical needs of future Mars mission probes, this paper systematically analyzes centering around the application channels for Mars' in-situ materials, which is referential to research of the technology of Mars's individual or integrated resource exploitation.
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