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by ba2plus
2144 days ago
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Mars could be the key to opening up the entire solar system. It's close enough to the sun for solar power to be practical, it's proven to have the mass amounts of subsurface ice and atmospheric CO2 needed for Sabatier-process methane/oxygen production, and it has a very shallow gravity well that would make it easy to lift huge propellant loads into orbit. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that Mars-based tankers supplying propellants and breathing oxygen would be commonplace through the solar system by the end of the century. |
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