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The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars s natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration and exploitation missions as well as subsequent human colonization. Planet resources include various crust-lodged materials, a low-pressure natural atmosphere, assorted forms of utilizable energy, lower gravity than Earth s, and ground placement advantages relative to human operability and living standards. Power resources may include using solar and wind energy, importation of nuclear reactors and the harvesting of geothermal potential.§§In fact, a new branch of human civilization could be established permanently on Mars in the next century. But, meantime, an inventory and proper social assessment of Mars s prospective energy and material resources is required. This book investigates the possibilities and limitations of various systems supplying manned bases on Mars with energy and other vital resources. The book collects together recent proposals and innovative options and solutions. It is a useful source of condensed information for specialists involved in current and impending Mars-related activities and a good starting point for young researchers.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Other technologies & applied sciences Space science

• Full title: Mars
• Subtitle: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
• Author: Viorel Badescu
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 695
• EAN: 9783642036286
• ISBN: 3642036287
• ID: 01650295
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 1601 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. January 2010

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