Building a Base on Mars

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:

Well giving it more thought the best place might be the valley between
to tall clifts. The reason for that is it blocks out most of the sky.
With just a very thin atmosphere I think it best to stay in the shade.
Might be best to build a base on the lowest orbiting Mars moon. That way
we could see a lot of Mars,and not worry about dust storms. Landing on a
Mars moon could be a lot easier. It might even have just enough gravity
to make a toilet work without spending $32,000,000 for a vacuum toilet.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent _Red Mars_ trilogy a number of
settlements are built by building roofs over canyons, and even domes
over small craters. I think some sunshine would be welcome to take
the edge off the chill, and create a "greenhouse effect" under skylights.

--
Odysseus

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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R I'll go where water might be. That is the main theme of my post.
Bert


I agree. Go to the water...I'd just prefer a nice titanium or even aluminum
structure instead of the igloo. Now back to the menu...how are we going
to raise t-bones up there.

BV.

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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R I'll go where water might be. That is the main theme of my post.
Bert


What about the CO2 rich environment...would earth-species plants be able to
survive in a partial dome that allows some atmosphere in?

BV.

"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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R I'll go where water might be. That is the main theme of my post.
Bert


What about the CO2 rich environment...would earth-species plants be able
to
survive in a partial dome that allows some atmosphere in?

You might want to pump it in to get the pressure up.

Plants like CO2, H20 and sunlight (amongst a number of other
mineral substances they derive from the soil).