MarsPolar, a newly started international venture is setting its sights on the Red Planet. The project consisting of specialists from Russia, United Arab Emirates, Poland, U.S. and Ukraine has come up with a bold idea to establish a human settlement on Mars’ polar region, the part of the planet with abundant quantities of water ice. The targeted area could be very interesting in terms of alien life hunting as the MarsPolar team puts it: “life begins where the water exists.” The plan is to create the colony around 2029. “We want to send to Mars a crew of 4-6 astronauts, every 2 years,” Roman Juranek, the project’s Director of Communications for Poland, told astrowatch.net.

Juranek and his colleagues would like to see SpaceX’s Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the mission and also the company’s Red Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo and crews to Mars.