Exciting time for Mars

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BMAONE23
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Exciting time for Mars

Post by BMAONE23 » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:33 pm


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Post by astroton » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:24 am

BMAONE23,

Nice images. When you look at this images, it makes you wonder, Mars probably has gone through a life cycle that Earth is going through now.

Mars needs more than rovers to go there. I believe when Man sets foot on Mars, one of the first reaction is going to be,"We should have been here before."
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take me back to my cabin in the hills of Mars . . .

Post by kovil » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:18 am

Mars sure has a comfortable feeling in the photos. I feel a longing to return there when I look out at the landscape. As foreign as it sometimes looks, there is a familarity about it. It certainly is the most earthlike of all the other planets.

If we could just increase its mass and get some water.
How about doing an M&A with Enceladus ?

What if one manuvered something bigger than Enceladus to spiral in and bump Enceladus, like a pair of billard balls, would Enceladus carom away and Saturn let it go, in a trade of sorts? Like croquet !

If we were good, it would then spiral in to Mars in a 'soft landing' like our economy does occaisonally ! and we'd be in the terra-forming business.
Maybe some nukes could make chunks out of it for a multiplicity of impact pieces instead of one big landing.

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Post by makc » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:16 am

this kind of made an APOD, so feel free to continue here.

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