Posted on 05/17/2016 6:27:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Last year, scientists proposed nearly 50 locations on Mars as possible places for future human landings. Those landing-zone sites contain "regions of interest" that can be reached from primary touchdown spots. Good touchdown sites will allow crews to land safely and carry out operations; offer a wealth of interesting science activities; and provide resources that the astronauts could use. For example, any favored exploration zone should allow expeditionary crews to tap into at least 100 metric tons (110 U.S. tons) of water, NASA officials have said.
With its suite of instruments and cameras — particularly the sharp-shooting High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is being put through a request process called "HiWish" to snag new images of landing-zone candidates."NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Directorate has begun to think about where human explorers should go on Mars, and what conditions and resources, as well as what science targets, may be present," said HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen, director of the Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "This is a sign that they are actually thinking about sending people to Mars." "Hopefully, this new interest in Mars will include support for future robotic missions needed to answer key questions,"
... Once a semi-permanent base on Mars is established, crews would set up ISRU equipment, make sure all the kinks in the gear are smoothed out and then start harvesting resources. ISRU hardware would also operate in autonomous mode when there were no humans at the base, Davis said. "You don't achieve sustainability on Mars overnight. You grow to it," Davis said. "This is not a technical problem. Yes, there are technical issues. But it is a belief problem. If people believe it's achievable, then it will be achievable."
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WOW do I have some vounteers to put forward. They just don’t know it yet. LOLOLOLOLOL!
“nasa-is-a-waste-of-money-never-happen-what-about-Muslim-outreach-want-more-grant-money-who-cares”
What’s left to say? You took all the wind out of my sail.
sending all Muslims to Mars...hmmmmm
I read it here on FR:
Mars can never be colonized, because the inner core has cooled and unlike the Earth’s core, it is solid and unmoving. Because of this, the gravity is not strong enough to hold the atmosphere to the planet.
So the Heinlein book wherein they had large Oxygen-producing machines just ain’t gonna happen, which is a bummer.
The good news is that the oxygen-free environment makes it a good destination for muslimes.
A solid core has very little to do with holding an atmosphere. Mars can be colonized, but the atmosphere would need regular maintenance due to losses to space.
My advice: Bring potatoes.
>The good news is that the oxygen-free environment makes it a good destination for muslimes.
Mars is the perfect destination for islam...it has the perfect atmosphere for such a depraved and useless belief system.
One can easily make Holy Water just by boiling the Hell out of it.
What is the gravitational field at ground level like on Mars? Would it not have adverse affects on human physiology over time? Like muscle atrophy, bone loss, circulatory weakening, etc.
Matt Damon said the gravity is, like, 2/3 what Earth’s gravity is.
We have already been to Mars!!!
According to Democrat congresscritter Jackson Lee, she said in 1997 while on a trip to the Mars Pathfinder operations center in California, Jackson Lee asked if the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking a picture of the flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Needless to say, Jackson Lee, then a member of the House Science Committee was stoned or stupid.
Martian gravity is about 0.38 times earth gravity. That would affect muscle tone and bone density in the long term, but those effects would not matter so long as you stayed on Mars. The adjustment when returning to earth might be a big deal, but only if they returned, and the extended transit time in zero-g space would be a much bigger factor.
at the risk of seeming biased, what have Muslims done for man kind?
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.
touche!
Also, I will space any muslim who comes near me.
Yep. The only reason you can't flap your wings and fly is because you don't really believe that you can. Davis needs to climb on the roof, flap his arms, believe he can fly, and then jump.
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