PANews reported on October 13 that Elon Musk responded to a user on the X platform about building a city on Mars and said that if civilization remains stable in the next 30 years, a self-sufficient city with a population of 1 million will be built on Mars.

It was previously reported that Elon Musk released a new plan to launch five starships to Mars within two years, send humans to Mars within four years, and build the first Martian city TERMINUS on Mars that can accommodate one million people by 2050.