Jun 20
All sorts of stuff here, and so worth seeing. I REALLY want a dirt sample to call my own. Check these out.
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All sorts of stuff here, and so worth seeing. I REALLY want a dirt sample to call my own. Check these out.
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Wow, some of those shots look like what we could see in Star Wars episode IV!
Quite awesome. The new stuff just blows the old stuff away. Imagine the quality imagery we’ll get when we get back to the moon as well.
I wonder if we will ever be able to terraform Mars, so that we can live on it.
Alecmicah: It’ll take about 1000 years
Not if you evaporate the frozen oxygen under the crust.
Now get yoah ass to mahs!
omg, best pictures ive seen in a while on the interwebs,.
Zorbane: Total Recall?
I swear.. John Williams’ score for Star Wars:Episode 4 should be playing with that skyline.
As for terraforming, first we’d need a bit more information about Mars and it’s interior. Whether there’s enough water there to help plants grow to produce oxygen.
It’s like trying to terraform a desert. Lots of dust, not a lot of water in sight.
Absolutely amazing pics and videos. I’m such a geek for this stuff… and owning my own Mars soil? Wow, talk about uber cool. yes, please!
Wow!
Where is Luke?!?
Can we please just colonize this? 1000 years of terraforming is still gonna be 1000 years in the future. Let’s start now.
Btw Brian D., they said there was ice water there. Easy way to change that into liquid – little black specks of whatever material you want sprinkled over it. I’m dead serious. Absorbs enough heat to melt it. The water flows back through all the crevices, bam, terraforming started.
I think what wow’s me is how much light there is on the planet. I would have thought that being 128 million miles from the Sun would have it much darker then what the picture shows. And the picture of the Earth and Moon from Mars is so cool.
A) Wow, great images.
B) Thanks for that link. Big Picture blog added to my daily tab.
Tyler – lol.. notice I said “Enough” water. Earth is 2/3rds water. But how much water does Mars have that would enable it to maintain sufficient hydration on the planet?
It’s also about the magnetic shield. Mars doesn’t have one because the planetary engine is cold. We need to find a way to restart it but we have no idea how.
That’s pretty much what I was going to say. Without a sufficiently strong magnetic field to diffuse the effect of solar wind stripping off the hard-earned atmosphere, any large-scale attempts to teraform mars would be futile. Covered domes, maybe…but that’s not really teraforming but more like transplanting.
Of equal importance is the fact that without the atmosphere (in composition, density and size) and magnetosphere of earth, anyone living their would be bombarded with lethal levels of solar radiation (lethal in that it would kill you, maybe not fast..but does it really matter how fast?).
That being said, there’s nothing saying that the method of producing said field requires a “working” core.