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IN order to avoid the cost and mass of building and transferring to Mars huge exploratory vehicles, might another approach be adopted.
I'm thinking of a dual approach:
1. Electric trikes for mobility and substantial carrying ability (they will have a large boot or pull a substantial trailer).
2. Staging posts every few kms where there will be air supplies, food and solar power/batteries plus inflatable "igloos" dug into trenches.
Advantages: probably lower mass. If something goes wrong with the transport people can still walk back. Ability to gradually extend area of exploration over a wide area.
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Alternatively still send an enormous ship that breaks into dozens of small cache habs that enter and land independently.
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