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#1 2004-04-08 08:42:45
Re: Mars Exploreers Club - Ever heard of it?
I was intrigued to come across the [http://www.mars-club.org/about.html]Mars Explorer's Club web page; check it out. For those who think the landscape up there is boring, you will enjoy their description of the place from an explorer's point of view.
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#2 2004-04-08 09:23:28
- clark
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Re: Mars Exploreers Club - Ever heard of it?
Mars has incredible landscapes for the explorer. Mountaineering, polar, caving and desert expeditions and descents into some of the most expansive canyons in the Solar System all wait for future explorers. Its ice caps are as large as Antarctica and its extinct volcanoes higher than Mount Everest. Although the planet is smaller than the Earth, its total land area for exploration is equal to the area of the Earth's continents combined because it has no oceans. Mars is the only planet in our Solar System that has environments analogous to those on Earth that will one day be host to epic human expeditions.
Mountains you can climb, never feeling the cracks and crumble of the landscape beneath you as you scale ever higher.
Caves that run forever, where you never here the echo of your own footsteps.
Quiet volcano's that smolder in ruin, cold and empty like the rest of Mars.
Canyons deeper than any oceans depth, where the sun never touches in shadows as tall as cities, never to let your gasp of awe mingle in the musuem silence of this temple.
Mars is beautiful, but Mars is ever removed.
It's a world you can see, but never touch.
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#3 2004-04-08 10:38:15
- Bill White
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Re: Mars Exploreers Club - Ever heard of it?
Mars has incredible landscapes for the explorer. Mountaineering, polar, caving and desert expeditions and descents into some of the most expansive canyons in the Solar System all wait for future explorers. Its ice caps are as large as Antarctica and its extinct volcanoes higher than Mount Everest. Although the planet is smaller than the Earth, its total land area for exploration is equal to the area of the Earth's continents combined because it has no oceans. Mars is the only planet in our Solar System that has environments analogous to those on Earth that will one day be host to epic human expeditions.
Mountains you can climb, never feeling the cracks and crumble of the landscape beneath you as you scale ever higher.
Caves that run forever, where you never here the echo of your own footsteps.
Quiet volcano's that smolder in ruin, cold and empty like the rest of Mars.
Canyons deeper than any oceans depth, where the sun never touches in shadows as tall as cities, never to let your gasp of awe mingle in the musuem silence of this temple.
Mars is beautiful, but Mars is ever removed.
It's a world you can see, but never touch.
Don't be so sure. The MarsSkin style suits may eventually end up being not all that different from what scuba divers wear.
One of the pleasures of sailing is feeling the water as it pushes on the rudder, which passes through a 6 foot post of aluminum which then passes through a sturdy wooden tiller into my fingers. I can feel the water that is 8 feet below my arms.
Jet pilots can feel turbulence through the hydraulics.
Different? Sure, but necessarily not all that different.
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#4 2004-04-08 10:46:36
- clark
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Re: Mars Exploreers Club - Ever heard of it?
One of the pleasures of sailing is feeling the water as it pushes on the rudder, which passes through a 6 foot post of aluminum which then passes through a sturdy wooden tiller into my fingers. I can feel the water that is 8 feet below my arms.
Try sailing in full scuba gear, better yet, try to feel through several centimeters of a thick fabric designed to protect you from the low pressure and temperature of your environment.
It is different. Whether it's a big deal is for each to decide. [shrug] Sometimes I take off my Mars-colored glasses, and try to see it a little differently.
If variety is the spice of life, Mars is just salt and pepper. 
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