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Some crazy thoughts. How big a vehicle would you need to land a hab with one years rations and pressurized rover in the same spot? The crew could spend 1 year at the landing site and then drive to the place where there is another hab and spend another year their before going home. But now consider what happens if they decide to stay where they are at and not go to the MAV/ERV.
If the MAV/ERV was launched first then each following year another HAB full of supplies was launched to form a square with the MAV in the center. Thus over four separate human missions and one hab/ERV drop there would be 4 bases each 500km away from an escape ride home and a back up hab with a year rations and 707 km away from their nearest neighbor. Over those 5 heavy lift launches there will be 24 people covering an area of 50 000 km^2 of the Martian surface. Then land another HAB full of supplies by another MAV/ERV in the center of an adjacent square.
IF there is one heavy lift launch per year then over 30 years these squares will form a band across mars 4.2426e+003 km long and 707.1068 km wide. Each base is 707 km from it’s nearest neighbor and 500 km away from two ERV/MAV. There will be 24 occupied bases each with 6 or more people in them giving a total Martian population of over 144 people. Each base will specialize in a unique industry and goods will be transported back and forth between bases. Each base will have started with a crew of 6 and if over that time if any of them had children the size of the base could of doubled or tripled.
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