New Mars Forums

Lots of cool pictures, Cindy!

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e19_r02 … html]Found some new pictures of that bizarre terrain in Hellas, near the lowest spot on Mars.

This one show some depth, thanks to the light angle.

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e19_r02 … ml]Another here

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e19_r02 … 3.html]And here

Here is an idea I thought about while working on a science fiction story.

I believe there are many wandering worlds roaming interstellar space- worlds that have been cast out of their solar system by their siblings during close encounters.

If this is true, there could be countless worlds waiting for us. If we can figure how to move these worlds, we could do something like move an Earth Mass world into Mars orbit and make Mars its moon.

If we find ones loaded with valuable resourse, we could put them in orbit around Venus.

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r16_r21 … html]First thing that came to mind when I saw this picture was E. Fudd saying "Wabbit Tracks!"

I believe they are heading (Hopefully not where heading, in the past tense) to a large and very eroded crater called Victoria.

I don't know where I picked up "thou". Probably some book I read as a kid. I have used it (sparingly) for years.3

As far as Star Trek. Yes, they are always plowing thought the galaxy. And that is the problem. I am always wondering what is going on at home, in the Solar System.

Are they terraforming Venus and Mars? Are they living on the Moon, Mars or any other worlds in the Solar System? Do they mine the asteroids? Are their hotels or bases on any of the Gas Giant Moons? Is Mercury one big industrial complex? What is going on in the Solar System?

This last episode confirmed that in the Star Trek Universe, Mars is being terraformed (I wonder if it was fully terraformed during the Next Generation series?), That there is a self supporting mining colony on the Moon, and that Mars has a colony.

I do know The Next Generation’s Enterprise was built in Mars orbit, so something had to be going on there, but they never elaborated on it.

Chat, I was picturing more of a factory (Or thousands of factories) in low Venus orbit. The factory sucks up Venus’s atmosphere and process it. The CO2 is separated into oxygen and carbon. The carbon could be used to built huge tanks to hold gasses, like nitrogen, bound for Mars. Perhaps a similar process, say set up above Saturn or Uranus, could extract valuable hydrogen (There should be plenty of carbon on the moons to make strong carbon nano-tube tanks). This hydrogen could be combined with Venus oxygen to form energy and water.

I think the real key to making this feasible is to make as much of it automated as possible, and have robots do most of the work.

I have watched Star Trek for years, and have wondered if in the Star Trek Universe, Mars was ever terraformed. I took a chance with my Peace Offering Star Trek story that Mars had been terraformed.

I was glad to see on the Final Enterprise that Mars was in the process of being terraformed. I liked seeing the Moon and Mars in the Enterprise show. Star Trek rarely shows our Solar System, but I like it when they do and I wish they would have shown more Solar System locations.

They made one mistake, thou. The comet going to Mars was coming from the direction of the Sun. This means the tail would be going towards Mars. There would be a debris trail lagging behind the comet, which they correctly showed.

I liked how they correctly talked, and then showed, about how on the partly terraformed Mars they would not need pressure suits, just thermal suits and an oxygen mask.

I’ll forgive them for moving about Mars like they were in Earth’s gravity (In a base there could be artificial gravity generators, like on their ships, simulating Earth’s gravity, but out on the surface…). Simulating Mars gravity on a show like this would have been difficult.

Overall, I enjoyed the Terra Prime episode showing the Moon and Mars.

I wonder if Opportunity’s underbelly is stuck on the crest of that dune?

I figure worst case scenario they’ll use the instrument arm boom to push Opportunity off the dune.

Cindy, at first glance at that dune picture was a school of fish swimming upstream.

Not far to the north from that last picture is http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r10_r15 … .html]this area.

Notice the somewhat streamlined crater. It looks almost like is received a blast from one direction.

Something must have smacked Hyperion pretty good, or it is the result of a large collision.

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/r10_r15 … html]Weird features in Elysium

I was hunting for this frozen sea in Elysium when I came across that picture.

BTW, have they released the location of this frozen sea in Elysium? It is supposed to be near the equator.