Humans have yet to even step foot on Mars, but architects are already designing homes people can live in on the distant planet for NASA. AI SpaceFactory, a "multi-planetary architectural and technology design agency" in New York City, designed a habitat called "Marsha," which can be 3D-printed using materials available on the Red Planet. The design won NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge this month. Take a look inside the Mars habitat, via renderings from AI SpaceFactory. The cone-like pods are 15 feet high and 8 feet in diameter, and they would sit vertically on Mars' dusty, rocky surface. The pods are designed to be 3D-printed in just 30 hours without any human assistance.

Concept image of "Marsha" habitat sitting on Mars's surface Source: AI SpaceFactory

Inside, the habitats have four levels inside, connected by spiral staircases.

Source: AI SpaceFactory

A ground-floor level would include a sealed hatch for entering and exiting the pod in space suits, as well as laboratories for astronauts to conduct tests and other work. Other levels would include a kitchen, a garden for growing plant-life, a level for exercising and other recreational activities, and four "sleepy pods" — private living quarters with a bed and desk.

Source: AI SpaceFactory

Source: AI SpaceFactory

The interior of the pods, AI SpaceFactory says, needed to be "light, airy" and comfortable for humans living on a faraway planet with very different living conditions than Earth, including extreme temperature swings that can vary between 70 degrees Fahrenheit and minus-100 degrees in the same day. The agency describes its pods as offering a "tiny bubble of Earth on a distant world."

Source: AI SpaceFactory