Human landing, exploration and settlement on Mars will require local compute resources at the Mars edge. Landing such resources on Mars is an expensive endeavor. Instead, in this paper we lay out how concepts from low-Earth orbit edge computing may be applied to Mars edge computing. This could lower launching costs of compute resources for Mars while also providing Mars-wide networking and compute coverage. We propose a possible Mars compute constellation, discuss applications, analyze feasibility, and raise research questions for future work.

翻译：人类在火星上的着陆、探索和定居将需要火星边缘的本地计算资源。将此类资源着陆到火星是一项昂贵的任务。相反，本文阐述了如何将低地球轨道边缘计算的概念应用于火星边缘计算。这可以降低火星计算资源的发射成本，同时提供火星范围的网络和计算覆盖。我们提出了一种可能的火星计算星座，讨论了应用场景，分析了可行性，并为未来工作提出了研究问题。