Sunday, June 2, 2013

Possible glaciers on Mars

That would certainly help with making fuel if you could land a spacecraft in there.  It is a large impact basin with higher atmospheric pressure as a result of its depression.  The Hellas Planitia basin is located in the southern hemisphere of Mars.  It is over 23,000 feet deep.

I was thinking of a procedure by which you would not have to take hydrogen with you, but harvest it from Mars instead.  Using such a landing point as this would probably leave out solar as it would get blocked, I would suppose.

The water deposits there could be significant as there is evidence of glaciers that may be protected by a layer of dirt.

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