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Old July 22nd 10, 02:08 AM posted to sci.space.tech
Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply][_3_]
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Default Technologies for Moon mission useable for missions further out

Alain Fournier wrote:
[[about MLI]]
Right, I wouldn't think that kind of insulation would be helpful
on Mars. On the Moon maybe because of longer nights and because
MLI is more efficient in vacuum than in the Martian atmosphere.


MLI doesn't work on or near the Martian surface -- the atmospheric
pressure is too high.

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