Where do we land and establish our first permanent settlement?
>>16931884I've always been partial to Eos Chasma.Low elevation so you get enough atmospheric pressure during the northern summer to allow construction with magnesium oxychloride cement and possible proximity to the materials to make it.Interesting geology overall
>>16931884By using a nuclear pulse mothership craft to get there so that our chemical landing craft can laboriously fire all the way to the ground, since it now has enough fuel and doesn't need a complicated parachute dropping a thing mechanism that can go wrong half the time. As for the settlement part: we need to put a lot of mass down so we can stabilize the canyon walls in Noctis Labyrinthus, and have part underground, with a network of tunnels, with exist points, and part coming out of the canyon walls with thick windows that have a constantly circulating waterfall of water that is 50cm thick and blocks radiation, but mostly because it will look cool.
>>16931897>Low elevationWe need a base in Badwater Crater (don't chimp about dumb scientifically correct image that isn't even mine).
>>16931899I watched the curiosity landing live at the 2012 Mars Society conference and I was shocked that the landing system actually worked.
>>16931901It's in the southern hemisphere so it would be colder on average, but with milder temperature swings.I like Eos Chasma because it's near the equator and the high canyon walls might be useful for radiation protection.
where the fuck anyone getting water that isn't contaminated>just boil it off bro
>>16931908>just boil it off broPretty easy where the atmospheric pressure is about 1% of Earth's.
>>16931906It's just neat. Badwater is the one of the places where pressure is sufficient that water doesn't boil instantly, and summer temperatures can permit it as a liquid. Of course, since the air is almost devoid of water, it would evaporate instead (likely going through evaporative cooling freeze thaw cycles). But it wouldn't explosively boil. So if you waited till summer when it can reach 20 degrees, you could pour out a load of water into a sub crater inside it and have a swimming pool you can drown in on Mars.
>>16931903same
Flat mars worlder and one boxer here
>>16931884>arabia
