The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

[Sejon]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

Plants don't need oxygen. They need carbon dioxide. And Mars has plenty of that locked up in its poles.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, so carbon monoxide is needed for plants to grow as well as good soil water and several other important things. i think i heard somewhere that mars surface was very harsh so any plant growing would almost certainly have to be done inside a protective shell and controlled. it would take a huge scale terraform to make the planet hospitable. the distance is a bit far so if there is a problem you can almost be sure the people working on it would be toast.


here is an article on terraforming, kinda interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraform

[JLaCroix]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

I see. I'm sure the temperature of the planet wouldn't allow plant life though. The sun is a lot further away on Mars.

[Sejon]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

I say just pollinate the entire planet with various plant seeds. Ala a mechanical Johnny Appleseed.

Life is bound to find a way, dammit!

[Duel]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

Save it for the Science Fair

Let's celebrate the Phoenix Lander.

Needs a better name though.


Like Galactic Explorer

Or BattleStar

[Blackberry]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

I say screw Mars, let's start building a Dyson sphere.



I kid, I love Mars.

[Red Dragon]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

Let's celebrate the Phoenix Lander.

Needs a better name though.


Like Galactic Explorer

[gray]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueUOTImKp0k


i agree that we need to go to mars. but i'm not sure we need to **** with mars. seems kinda egotistical to be like "nobody is using this planet......OURS!"

[goldgecko4]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

We need to make Mars OURS, I mean, how else are we going to find the Prothean technologies? Oh, and too bad we can't don what they do in Mass Effect, where they just send a ice-filled comet into the surface to add extra oxygen and water to the atmosphere.

[Duel]

Re: The Phoenix Lander Made It To Mars Unharmed

Let's get it before Canada.

[gray]

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canadas "gretzky" "space probe" is faulty on several levels, mostly due to it being just a very large wooden ladder.




and they only have enough wood to make it half way to mars! ha!

[orius]

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Why don't we start sending plants to Mars, dammit?! Let the bio-terraforming begin!

*wags finger at Mars for having a crappy magnetosphere*

That's the real problem. Mars doesn't have a magnetic field like Earth, so most of its atmosphere got stripped away by solar radiation.