This Is How We Get To Mars
The Space Race
The Aldrin Mars Cycler is new to me. It might work out, but right now it strikes me as extremely sketchy. And the business of using solar panels to generate power on Mars also sounds marginal. A nuclear power plant would be better. Of course, a nuclear power plant would be a big chuck of mass. Question is whether a nuclear power plant would weigh less than six acres of solar panels.
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Current reactor technology requires water for cooling. A commodity that exists on Mars but in extremely limited quantities. Reactor power on Mars will require a sea change in theory, design and engineering. Solar power on Mars is theoretically possible but with the amount of energy per square meter being 43% what it is on Earth it will require massive numbers of panels. Add in obscuring by dust...which we would lack the ability to clean off easily and solar is also problematic.
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