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Does anyone know if any of the Mars missions are planning on travelling to Mars through the paths where the gravity wells of the different planets cancel each other out. I just took a crash course in movement of satellites etc in physics class today (I had to miss THE most important 2 days last term!)
my teacher mentioned that it is now possible to map where these areas of zero gravity are and that they allow space travel with a fraction of the energy.
Anyway, hope someone can make sense of my ramblings.
Only 13 days of classes left before I have to study for my end of SCHOOL exams, oh joy!
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Does anyone know if any of the Mars missions are planning on travelling to Mars through the paths where the gravity wells of the different planets cancel each other out.
Exactly what planets were you thinking of using, that would lie on a path between the Earth and Mars? There are no such planets.
There are places where the gravitational forces between two bodies balance (such as the Lagrange points between the Sun and the Earth), but they would not form "paths" that you could travel along.
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There was an article about this on one of the science news pages and a thread on this forum. A search through the history should locate it.
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