Re: I take objection to NASA's Mars plans!
- From: Hop David <hopspageHATESSPAaMmM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:49:45 -0700
Cardman wrote:
The Russians have always spoken about landing on Phobos before going to Mars. Sounds like an interesting idea, where this is a good Mars observation point. Just a shame that Phobos is a pebble. :-]
The density of Phobos & Deimos at least suggests high water content. Though 1.08e16 kg is small by planetary standards, if a substantial fraction of that is water, it could make a useful base.
Someone at the bottom of Stickney crater would enjoy more than 2 pi steradians radiation protection from the floor and crater walls. Plus a large Mars can be seen from Stickney (all the time since Phobos is tidelocked). Mars affords about another 2/5 of a steradian radiation shield.
Deimos is nearly in a Mars synchronous orbit, only about .1 km/sec delta vee is needed to park stuff from Deimos in Mars synchronous orbit.
My point would not to be to land on Mars until they are ready. As four years is certainly a long time.
Cardman.
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