January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
..., light on other key factors which would be necessary for success. His precondition for a self-sustaining civilisation on Mars is a population of one million people, who would be transported there, together with at least 10 tonnes of cargo per person...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... investigations and sample returns from Phobos and Deimos, and rendezvous and capture of Mars surface sample canisters in Mars orbit. The Mars Base Camp concept is built on a strong foundation of today’s technologies – making it safe, affordable and...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...almost exclusively in vacuum and therefore were more concerned with radiating excess heat than retaining it, the Mars colony would require systems to distribute heat throughout the habitat as well as insulate the environment to maintain a comfortable...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... been sufficient to carve Valles Marineris. With a volume of 9.85 million cubic kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. Nonetheless, it still means that 98.5 million...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...). Core asteroid impacts should have enriched an appreciable fraction of preserved martian craters with metal ores, rendering Mars the greatest treasury of accessible rare metals in the solar system. Sacramento Station analogies The business benefits...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... of a field indicates that convection has stopped, or dwindled to a level that is incapable of fuelling the field’s development. In early Mars history its magnetic field vanished, causing the near total loss of the planet’s atmosphere, and scientists...
