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Ok, a warmer Mars is desirable. But is Mars, in earth’s orbit, but on the opposite side of the sun, really closer?
by aj7 3y ago
Ok, a warmer Mars is desirable. But is Mars, in earth’s orbit, but on the opposite side of the sun, really closer?
- 0xfae 3y agoCloser in terms of what? Distance? delta-v to get there? Time to get there?
- _jal 3y ago> Ok, a warmer Mars is desirable. To humans.
- serf 3y agoyeah, well that is the typical comparison one would make as a human.. you are a human, right?
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- trwaw 3y agoWithout a magbetosphere it's pretty useless. It would just lose its atmosphere again within a few hundred years.
- bmitc 3y agoAgreed. It's the very definition of a dead planet, and there is even a high probability that it had life before Earth.
- lmm 3y agoIn travel time, no. In energy cost, yes, but only if you're willing to wait a long time to get there. Also impossible to communicate with directly by radio.