Best sentence in the article..
Scientists have been simulating giant impacts into Uranus since the early 1990s...
Have you tried to learned about all planets? Witch one is your favorite?
The fascination of life in one or more than one is a very good and busy work for specialists.
I knew about life on Mars, Moe. Thank you. I believe it would be a very expensive trip, lOnly the rich people can afford. Just my opinion. Thank you for posting.
While the cost of a manned trip to Mars is prohibitive the real reason is the danger of cosmic radiation. The ISS is within the Earth's magnetosphere and while still protected there is a danger from cosmic radiation even there (reduced but not gone). There is no protection in interplanetary space.
Another major limiter is the duration of the trip. Two years one way.
That's 2 years of exposure to radiation.
Two years of confinement, rebreathing air, eating stored food and reusing water.
Two years cooped up in a ship with the same people dealing with boredom, fear and psychosis.
Plus, at the end of two years, you have mission time to a planet surface that is hostile to life and if you survive that, another two years or more (depends when you leave and the Mars-Earth alignments) on the journey home.
Edited by
Tom4Uhere
on Sun 07/08/18 08:57 AM