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Dook

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From: USA

Registered: 2004-01-09

Posts: 1,409

Re: Moving Mars Habitat

One problem with a continuous landing of mars habitats is that you want to land them close to the other habitats already in place but you have to have some room for error.

A number of ideas have been proposed to move a mars habitat that lands miles away from the others.  Walking legs and wheels are the most common but what about lifting the habitat with a balloon full of hydrogen and then attaching a cable from the pressurized rover and pulling the habitat with the rover?

MarsDog

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From: vancouver canada

Registered: 2004-03-24

Posts: 852

Re: Moving Mars Habitat

Balloons on Mars bounce really well because of the low air density. Even on Earth it takes a house sized balloon to lift a
person. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is hard to design for.

smurf975

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2004-05-30

Posts: 402

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Re: Moving Mars Habitat

Why not send inmates to Mars to pull the habitats by physical human force to the right place, like mentioned http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2086]in these posts.? So instead of chaingangs we could have habitat-gangs.

No I'm just kidding   

However I did a google for your idea and the
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U … ch]results are not to promissing basically like MarsDog said. The pressure on Mars is like in the stratosphere of the Earth and the only things going there are weather balloons.

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MarsDog

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From: vancouver canada

Registered: 2004-03-24

Posts: 852

Re: Moving Mars Habitat

That would answer the funding problem also. US has large prison population, so the prison budget could become part of the Mars budget.