Would you like to live on a space station? đ
If that sounds familiar to fans of the popular sci-fi book and TV series âThe Expanse,â thatâs because in that fictional universe, Ceres Station plays a pivotal role as one of humanityâs first human off-world colonies. In the series, however, the space rock itself was spun up to create a crewed habitat on its surface with artificial gravity.
In a paper uploaded to the prewrite repository arXiv this week, the team argues that Ceres would be prime real estate because it has nitrogen, which could enable the creation of an Earth-like atmosphere.
In fact, they argue that the environment could even be âbetter than Earth,â since thereâs no adverse weather or natural disasters, and plenty of living space to grow into.