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：人类在火星着陆、探索和定居将需要在火星边缘部署本地计算资源。将此类资源运抵火星是一项成本高昂的工程。反之，本文阐述了如何将低地轨道边缘计算的概念应用于火星边缘计算。这既能降低火星计算资源的发射成本，又能提供覆盖火星全域的网络与计算能力。我们提出了一种可能的火星计算星座方案，讨论了其应用场景，分析了可行性，并为未来研究提出了若干待解决问题。