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No, and Valles Marineris is about 7km deep in places vs the Grand Canyon's 1.8km max depth, not something a rover could go check out. Robert Zubrin actually us
by ryanmercer 5y ago
No, and Valles Marineris is about 7km deep in places vs the Grand Canyon's 1.8km max depth, not something a rover could go check out.
Robert Zubrin actually uses Valles Marineris as part of the plot in his work of fiction First Landing that lays out how a manned mission to Mars might go.
- ChuckMcM 5y agoBut a helicopter could. :-)
- jvanderbot 5y agoexactly, and in the newfound current era of pinpoint orbit-to-surface landings you might just send a rover too.
- duxup 5y agoI'm imagining a future where space colonization is just robots fighting it out / eachother.
- jq-r 5y agoAlso mentioned in the Expanse book series as region which was colonized by Texans (IIRC) so they have that nice accent.