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Phil Stooke

Here are a few of those human exploration zones, as they were called. Each is a circular area about 200 km across, though there was a lot of variation. For scale, recall that 1 degree N-S is 60 km. Most of these maps are 4 degrees N-S or about 240 km across but some are larger. Each has a landing site and various science or resource targets. In a few cases traverses were mapped. We won't see all but we can manage a few more tomorrow.
#maps #mars #marslandingsites

12 small maps covering areas typically 4 degrees north-south but with some variation in size. Each contains one of the human exploration zones which were mapped globally in yesterday's post. The zones are drawn as circles, typically about 200 km across. Within each one is a landing site and various science or resource targets.
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Jennifer Morency :mastodon:

An abandoned test tube on Mars could hold the secret to life’s origins. Trump wants to leave it on the Red Planet. washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

'“Are we alone in the universe?” is the question we ask about life. On Earth, we might well ask: Are we alone among spacefaring nations in giving up just as we are poised to succeed? What will it say about us if, having recovered possible evidence of extraterrestrial life, we abandon it to the Martian dust?'

The Washington Post · An abandoned test tube on Mars could hold the secret to life’s originsBy Louis Friedman
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John A. Mulhall

🚀 The future of space travel is accelerating.
Thanks to nuclear fusion propulsion, reaching Mars in just 30 days could be reality by 2027.

Warp speed remains fiction—but this fusion breakthrough might reshape interplanetary exploration and space technology.

🔗: authormulhall.com/will-nuclear

Author Mulhall 📚 · Will Nuclear Fusion Drives Make Space Travel a Reality?UK’s Pulsar Fusion eyes space with its nuclear fusion drive, Sunbird, aiming to cut Mars travel to 30 days. Is fiction becoming reality?
#SpaceTravel#Nuclear#Mars
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Spaceflight 🚀

Initially expected to launch in 2022, the #ExoMars mission is currently scheduled for launch in 📆 2028. One of the most important elements of the mission is the system designed to slow the descent module from 21,000 km/h to a soft landing 🪂 on the surface of #Mars. europeanspaceflight.com/esa-re

European Spaceflight · ESA Recertifies ExoMars Parachutes After Years in Storage - European SpaceflightESA has retested a pair of parachutes that, along with a retro rocket, will ensure the safe landing of its Rosalind Franklin rover on Mars.
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Phil Stooke

Remember HEM-SAG? It looked at human landing sites on Mars, but each landing went to a different place. In October 2015 A workshop on Human Landing Sites was held at LPI near Houston. These were a different kind of site where successive landings would build up infrastructure. This map shows the global distribution, quite widely scattered. Several were at old landing sites: VIking 1 (site 9), Spirit (21), Opportunity (40), Curiosity (17).
#maps #mars #marslandingsites

A 2015 workshop looked at human exploration zones, places where multiple landings would build up infrastructure over time. This map of Mars in two hemispheres shows 50 sites considered at the meeting, They are widely distributed and a few are at previous landing sites such as Viking 1 and Spirit.
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Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

« C’est comme construire une #autoroute vers #Mars » : la #NASA déploie la première #matrice #solaire révolutionnaire de l’ #histoire pour conquérir l’ #espace infini

#astrophysique #astronomie
#conquête #spatiale

enviro2b.com/2025/07/25/cest-c

Enviro2B · « C'est comme construire une autoroute vers Mars » : la NASA déploie la première matrice solaire révolutionnaire de l'histoire pour conquérir l'espace infini - Enviro2BEN BREF 🚀 La technologie ROSA permet un déploiement autonome des panneaux solaires, réduisant le poids et les points de défaillance. 🔋 Chaque panneau ROSA peut générer plus de 20 kW d’énergie pendant une décennie, renforçant la fiabilité des missions de longue durée. 🌌 ROSA établit une infrastructure énergétique standardisée, essentielle pour la colonisation durable
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Phil Stooke

There were lots of sites and several meetings to discuss them. This map summarizes the process and you can see people were busy! I won't look at all of these ideas in detail here. We might be back to doing this in coming years as the new Mars version of CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) gets going. New ideas, new locations.

Rather than look at more of those ideas I will jump to 2015 and a study of human exploration zones. Tomorrow!
#maps #mars #marslandingsites

A map of Mars in 2 hemispheres showing dozens of sites suggested for future missions in the 2009-2013 period (suggested in that period, but flying 5 or more years later if any had been selected, and none were chosen). They are very widely distributed across the planet, almost pole to pole.
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