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It's full of carbon dioxide, and amount of sulfuric acid is negligible, plus that acid can be used to extract water. On Mars you have sand storms, which are mo
by 6d6b73 9y ago
It's full of carbon dioxide, and amount of sulfuric acid is negligible, plus that acid can be used to extract water.
On Mars you have sand storms, which are more dangerous to people and equipment.
Resources can be brought from asteroids.
Mars is not only low pressure,but also low gravity, high radiation environment. Venus colony could be powered by solar power, as it's much closer to Sun, on Mars it would be much harder to generate power.
- baq 9y agoIt's going to be a tad more difficult to be a launch pad on Venus to get back home, though.
- 6d6b73 9y agoCare to explain why? You are 50 km above the surface all the time, so half the trip (when compared to Earth) is already behind you.
- ceejayoz 9y agoSure, but you're taking off in a rocket from a balloon.
- maxerickson 9y agoWhat does that matter? It's not like rockets launched from the surface spend a long time pushing on the planet.
- ceejayoz 9y agoYou wouldn't be even the littlest bit dubious of taking off from an inflatable balloon with a big fiery rocket where the launch abort is liable to drop you into lead-melting temperatures and nine atmospheres of pressure?
- maxerickson 9y agoProbably not any more uncomfortable than I'd be with the prospect of aborting a surface launch. There's probably some trick to do with the crew portion of the rocket too, where it could be buoyant before it got down to 9 atmospheres.
- carleverett 9y agoSorry to burst your bubble, but most of Venus's water was lost to space a long time ago :(
- 6d6b73 9y agoThere is atomic oxygen, a lot of CO2, even water vapors (appox 20ppm) in the atmosphere. Sulfuric acid can remove water from many compounds, plus sulfuric acid will decompose to water and sulfur trioxide at the right temperature.