I still can't get over the sheer brilliance of that landing.best mars movie ive seen in a while. Just awesome that we've got robots driving around on another planet sending us pictures.
Very good..but they dropped the two viking landers in the 70s in exactly the same way
Access Denied said:It's about time we had a base on the Moon tbqfh.
Not much point really except as a training base for mars and we still havent figured a lot of the problems out with a human mars mission.
3D printing may solve some of the issues - they have already tested rocket parts made by a printer.
It could mean a massive difference in the payload - particularly if you can print using local materials.
World hunger is not a problem of too little production, though.Food production for example. The problem faced by astronauts experimenting with growing things in space is that in a zero-gravity environment the plant gets, well, confused as to which way to grow. Building massive greenhouses on the Moon would solve a lot of this because it does have gravity, hopefully enough to let them grow. Think about it, the Moon is a quarter the size of the Earth, even if you only use 20% of the place for food production you're going to solve world hunger at a stroke.
Need to work out what destroyed its original atmosphere though.
Also would need to work on its magnetic field to try and lower the radiation.
Scouse said:The lack of a powerful magnetic field means that the sun blasts much of the atmos into space?
Mars is too cool. Needs a big molten iron core![]()