Exploring Mars By Telepresence From Orbit Or From Its Moons Phobos And Deimos

Saturday, June 6, 2015 - 19:00 in Astronomy & Space

I've talked before about how life on present day Mars could be vulnerable to Earth life. If only humans could be sterilized of other life, like a plant seed. But sadly, we can't do that, and it would kill us to try. Recent ideas, and experiments in Mars simulation chambers suggest that there may be liquid water habitats on the surface of Mars. They may be no more than droplets of water a few millimeters in diameter, but these still are, as Nilton Renno said, "Swimming pools for a microbe". And humans can't go anywhere without taking hundreds of thousands of microbe hitchhikers along with us. So - if we can't go to the surface of Mars right away - where can we go? read more

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