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Some of the newly released Mars Express imagery shows the recent regional storms heading south, from the ice cap's margin toward the huge volcanoes Olympus Mons and Elysium Mons.
When the storms reached these volcanoes, clouds in the area "that had previously been developing started to evaporate as a result of the air mass being heated by the influx of dust," ESA officials wrote.
This is a perfect example of how difficult it would be for humans to survive on Mars.
i reckon you'd need some kind of reinforced military type base to last it out there.
huge, self sustaining at most, spacecraft
originally posted by: Oleandra88
a reply to: Bluntone22
After reading some books about that, a huge, self sustaining at most, spacecraft with landing capabilities would be better suited for a space colony in my opinion.
If the occupants find a suitable planet, it could land. The infrastructure of it would serve as a kickstarter. Maybe make it so that it can expand and span a bigger area as a skeleton for new built areas.
originally posted by: Diaspar
a reply to: LookingAtMars
You're clearly very interested in Mars, and this might be a little off topic, but did you ever read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy?
In it, one of the ways in which they introduce heat to warm up the planet ready for further Terra forming was by using small "windmill" devices, millions of them, delivered around the planet by a small parachute using the martian winds. When each one landed it had on board a small dynamo type device and a conducting rod. Windmill turns, heat produced, delivered to the ground via a conducting rod, planet warms up slightly.
I can't remember the exact description - i read the books many years ago.
Now i know this is sci-fi but i've always wondered if there was anything in this idea. If it was at all feasible.
After all, It wouldn't be the first time a sci-fi writer has come up with a technology that later came to be in the real world - think satellites and Arthur C Clarke
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: Oleandra88
We have no idea what the radiation on the trip there will do to human bodies.
Or for that matter when we try to survive in the very thin atmosphere that will not protect us.
I dont remember exactly without doing some research but I think I read that the Martian soil has toxins that would poison humans if we tried to grow plants there..
I'll try to find the info..
Found it.
www.space.com...
originally posted by: LookingAtMars
originally posted by: Diaspar
a reply to: LookingAtMars
You're clearly very interested in Mars, and this might be a little off topic, but did you ever read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy?
In it, one of the ways in which they introduce heat to warm up the planet ready for further Terra forming was by using small "windmill" devices, millions of them, delivered around the planet by a small parachute using the martian winds. When each one landed it had on board a small dynamo type device and a conducting rod. Windmill turns, heat produced, delivered to the ground via a conducting rod, planet warms up slightly.
I can't remember the exact description - i read the books many years ago.
Now i know this is sci-fi but i've always wondered if there was anything in this idea. If it was at all feasible.
After all, It wouldn't be the first time a sci-fi writer has come up with a technology that later came to be in the real world - think satellites and Arthur C Clarke
If we could drop things on the South Pole of Mars and turn some frozen C02 to gas it would heat up Mars over the long run. I like the windmill idea too.