Mars
Over the Moon and keen to know more about the fascinating red planet that you're considering buying a piece of? If so, then keep reading! :)
INTRODUCING MARTIAN HABITAT
Martian Habitat is the name of the future settlement that contains all Mars land claims sold through our firm. It is located in the northern hemisphere of Mars at: AREA: E-15QUADRANT: JULIET 10 LATITUDE: 30-31° West LONGITUDE: 20-21° NorthLOT NUMBER: 238 (2,000 acres in size)
The image below is of a slab of the northern hemisphere of Mars and shows where Martian Habitat approximately sits. Note the nearby location of Sojourner Pathfinder (the rover NASA sent to Mars in 1997) labelled in blue.
Martian Habitat is the name of the future settlement that contains all Mars land claims sold through our firm. It is located in the northern hemisphere of Mars at: AREA: E-15QUADRANT: JULIET 10 LATITUDE: 30-31° West LONGITUDE: 20-21° NorthLOT NUMBER: 238 (2,000 acres in size)
The image below is of a slab of the northern hemisphere of Mars and shows where Martian Habitat approximately sits. Note the nearby location of Sojourner Pathfinder (the rover NASA sent to Mars in 1997) labelled in blue.
More information on Mars in general, including what makes it so appealing, is below.
ABOUT MARS
ABOUT MARS
• It has a surface area about the size of all the land on earth combined - or about 144 million square km in all.
• It is about 227.9 million km from the sun, which is about one and a half times as far from the sun as earth is.
• It has an atmosphere about 1% as thick as earth’s but which is still strong enough to satisfactorily protect us from the sun’s solar flares. Its thin atmosphere is what gives the planet its pink-coloured sky.
• Virtually all the resources we need to live and be the technologically advanced civilisation that we are on earth are available on the red planet.• Scientists believe there may be underground reservoirs of hot liquid water; possibly with some forms of primitive and/or microbial life in them.• It takes about four to nine months to get there by rocket ship (depending on the route and technology used).• It is usually the second brightest star in our night sky (after Venus).• It is tilted on a 24° angle (while earth is tilted on a 23.5° angle), which gives it the same four seasons as us but they are twice as long since its year is about twice as long as ours (at about 687 days). However, its day is almost the same length as ours (at about 24 hours and 37 minutes).• Its gravity is about three times weaker than that of earth.• It has two tiny moons known as Phobos and Deimos.
• It has water ice at its north pole (and in its soil) with carbon dioxide ice at its south pole. Scientists believe that it was once like earth with vegetation, a thicker atmosphere, a warmer climate and a large ocean in its northern hemisphere. Theoretically, it can be brought back to this state through global warming with the planting of plants (which will attract light and heat from the sun) and the artificial heating up of its atmosphere to melt its southern ice cap which will release carbon dioxide into its atmosphere, cause a greenhouse effect and, in turn, melt the northern water ice cap to form an ocean in its northern hemisphere. The new ocean will feed the soil and grow more vegetation that will then absorb the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere (which is currently about 95% carbon dioxide) and make the planet rich in oxygen. This process is known as terraforming and is used to describe the process for making any planet more earth-like. • No one has yet landed on Mars but a few countries have sent probes there. As with the Moon, some countries with space programmes (including America, China and India) have their sights on the red planet along with some wealthy entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk of SpaceX.
Still keen on the red planet? Check out the below video to see who else is as well and what is in the works to get us there!
WHY INVEST IN MARS?
Aside from the obvious technological advances, wealth and tourism possibilities that the red planet has to offer, the benefits do not end there. On the other web page of this store entitled Land on the Moon, it was mentioned that colonising another planetary body provides a ‘backup’ of life in case something disastrous occurs to one planetary body. Colonising Mars will help us to hugely advance ourselves in living and travelling in space so from there we can move to even more planetary bodies and make mankind and other earthly life forms almost immortal.
Aside from the obvious technological advances, wealth and tourism possibilities that the red planet has to offer, the benefits do not end there. On the other web page of this store entitled Land on the Moon, it was mentioned that colonising another planetary body provides a ‘backup’ of life in case something disastrous occurs to one planetary body. Colonising Mars will help us to hugely advance ourselves in living and travelling in space so from there we can move to even more planetary bodies and make mankind and other earthly life forms almost immortal.
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In his incredible book, The Case for Mars: The Plan to settle the Red Planet and why we must (1996 & 2011), Robert Zubrin described what he called Mars Direct, which is a revolutionary plan to get humans to Mars much more cost-effectively and even safely than previously thought. It all started when George Bush Senior signed off a plan to get to Mars in 1989. This led to the production of the 90-Day Report by US Congress that detailed what would need to be done and how much it would cost. The report was released in 1990 and concluded that it would take $450 billion (at that time) for a Mars mission (of simply putting a man on Mars and returning him to earth), which scared US Congress away from the idea for some time. Zubrin then developed Mars Direct, which had a new price tag of about $50 billion. It was around nine times cheaper because it involved first sending unmanned spaceships to Mars that would land there and produce all the fuel needed for the return mission by mixing some hydrogen brought over from earth with locally available carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere to produce methane (which can be used as rocket fuel). Once this was done, humans would leave earth on a second mission and arrive on board a relatively small spaceship (since there would be no need to carry the fuel for the return journey). The process would be repeated to establish a continual human presence on the red planet and both explore and populate it. To sum it up, Zubrin concluded that we should travel light and live off the land – in much the same way as the British colonists did when traversing across the North Atlantic to settle North America. It also pays to do something when you reach a new frontier rather than just reaching it, setting down a few flags and footprints, and then returning home.
LASTLY…
Some may still think Mars is just too difficult, too far away, too expensive and too dangerous to even contemplate. However, we have done something similar in the past, as mentioned immediately above. In the last 500 years, Christopher Columbus and many others sailed to North America from Europe, taking on the vast North Atlantic Ocean with wooden sail boats that were primarily designed for the Mediterranean Sea. Bear in mind that this is when it took months to sail across the North Atlantic. Soon whole British fleets arrived at the New World (being what they called North America back then) to take the plunge and colonise the land, founding America in the process. This, in turn, pushed them to work hard and create a lot of technological breakthroughs, which were sometimes referred to as Yankee ingenuity, and which contributed to making America the wealthiest nation in the world. There was so much of growth and potential that many more Europeans followed for their own share of the success and riches. The Spanish came over but had to settle for what is now Mexico. The French arrived on the scene but had to settle for what is now Canada. Eventually, we had coal-fired ships (such as Titanic) that were able to sail across the North Atlantic in just days – not months – and now we have airplanes that get us there in mere hours. Who back then would have thought that we would one day have the technology that we have now? The same can happen for Mars and not only can we ensure that we still exist to celebrate the year 3,000 AD but with a great sense of achievement as well!
LASTLY…
Some may still think Mars is just too difficult, too far away, too expensive and too dangerous to even contemplate. However, we have done something similar in the past, as mentioned immediately above. In the last 500 years, Christopher Columbus and many others sailed to North America from Europe, taking on the vast North Atlantic Ocean with wooden sail boats that were primarily designed for the Mediterranean Sea. Bear in mind that this is when it took months to sail across the North Atlantic. Soon whole British fleets arrived at the New World (being what they called North America back then) to take the plunge and colonise the land, founding America in the process. This, in turn, pushed them to work hard and create a lot of technological breakthroughs, which were sometimes referred to as Yankee ingenuity, and which contributed to making America the wealthiest nation in the world. There was so much of growth and potential that many more Europeans followed for their own share of the success and riches. The Spanish came over but had to settle for what is now Mexico. The French arrived on the scene but had to settle for what is now Canada. Eventually, we had coal-fired ships (such as Titanic) that were able to sail across the North Atlantic in just days – not months – and now we have airplanes that get us there in mere hours. Who back then would have thought that we would one day have the technology that we have now? The same can happen for Mars and not only can we ensure that we still exist to celebrate the year 3,000 AD but with a great sense of achievement as well!
