Click here to get back home

The Hellas Crater -- Good Place for a Mars Station?

 HomeNewsGroups | Search | About
 alt.sci.planetary    Post an article   get this group's latest topics as an RSS feed add this group's latest topics to your My MSN content add this group's latest topics to your My Yahoo content
Subject Author Date
The Hellas Crater -- Good Place for a Mars Station? windbag 07-22-2008
Posted by windbag on July 22, 2008, 10:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options
I seem to recall that a degree of mist could occasionally appear
within the depths of the Hellas impact feature. Would this bode well
for a comparatively more friendly habitation environment?

With its surrounding mountain ranges, and a high rim wall of cliffs,
the floor of Hellas may avoid some of the hairier winds and dust
storms. It's great depth means a fairly high atmospheric pressure year-
round. Plus, it's not too far from the equator.

I'd imagine, if a honeycomb of tunnels could be drilled there, it'd be
an ideal destination for a pipeline to pump in water from the northern
ice cap.

Similar ThreadsPosted
Lunar Polar Station -- South January 11, 2007, 7:18 pm
Station Keeping History of Hayabusa at Itokawa September 29, 2005, 8:57 am
A volcanic crater in Meridiani, Mars. October 3, 2006, 1:39 pm
Re - A volcanic crater in Meridiani, Mars. July 1, 2007, 8:09 am
Dust Delays Mars Crater Entry July 3, 2007, 10:06 pm
NASA Mars Rover Ready for Descent Into Crater June 28, 2007, 4:16 pm
Mars Express Images: Hummocky and Shallow Maunder Crater October 19, 2007, 12:42 pm
NASA's Mars Rover and Orbiter Team Examines Victoria Crater October 6, 2006, 11:31 am
In Search of Crater Chains May 12, 2006, 6:19 pm
In Search of Crater Chains May 12, 2006, 10:26 pm

Our other projects:

Art Dolls, Fairies and Mermaids - Sunnyfaces.net

Roy's Linux, Programming and Search Engines messages

1-Script XML SitemapXML Sitemap