Arabian Dunes on Mars.

[Zida'sukara]

I found some nice pics from Mars, would like to share them with you.

Specialist think it will be possible for humans to live on mars. It does not look very livable to me but then again, there are polarcabs! So theoreticly you should be able to let them melt a bit to create water and life.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Mars_as_art/index_noaccess.html

Here the pictures, they truly called a part of Mars Arabia & The highlands of Arabia Terra.

Barbara

 

[Cryozombie]

Everybody knows the Wong family owns half of mars already. They raise Buggalo there.

They are great pictures. I don't think its anyplace Id wanna live tho.
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[elder999]

ISpecialist think it will be possible for humans to live on mars. It does not look very livable to me but then again, there are polarcabs! So theoreticly you should be able to let them melt a bit to create water and life.

Barbara

Not likely without some huge advances in materials technology, as well as propulsion systems. Why? Radiation.

Space travel involves exposure to two forms of relatively unshielded radiation-cosmic rays and high energy particles emitted by the sun. On earht, we're shielded from the brunt of both of these by the atmosphere. The trips to the moon involved a great deal of radiation exposure, and would have been catastrophic in the event of a solar flare-NASA gambled on this. Additionally, lunar stay time was determined by the amount of radiation involved. Any long stays on the moon-a necessary first step before long stays on Mars, and perhaps even a manned expedition-will require underground habitats, or advances in material science for shielded habitats, or both.

As for that expedition to Mars, the 2.5 year trip-6 months each way, and a year and a half on the surface-would use an astronaut's lifetime radiation exposure under NASA limits. That's without solar flares,and also without the aforementioned underground habitats and/or shielding.

 

[Sukerkin]

Good post that brings up the often overlooked mundanities that get in the way of interplanetary travel :tup:.

If you can find it, an old work of fiction called "Throne of Saturn" by Allen Drury is hung around a manned trip to Mars using what we would consider to be contemporary technology. The story is not about the journey per se but more about the reactions of the people and the poloitics involved but it does give an idea of the problems (both physical and psychological).

If we overcome the technical, then there will still be the barrier of the emotional/psychological to deal with. I have been entranced by the idea of space/interstellar travel since I was a child (hence the fact that one room of my house is a Science Fiction library) but I am also sure that I would never be able to do it ... I find the London Underground terrifying enough :lol:!

 

[Phoenix44]

I don't know, but I think it would be a little chilly.