Exploration
Standing on the rim of Valles Marineris at first light
The canyon is four thousand kilometres long and the sun sets blue. A dispatch from the edge of the deepest scar in the solar system.
Read More →Field transmissions on deep-space travel, settlement engineering, and what it takes to make a new world habitable.
The canyon is four thousand kilometres long and the sun sets blue. A dispatch from the edge of the deepest scar in the solar system.
Read More →A practical walkthrough of the water, air and power systems that let a habitat run for months without a single shipment from home.
Read More →No fuel truck for two hundred million kilometres. How the Sabatier reaction turns a thin Martian atmosphere into a full return tank.
Read More →Perchlorate-laced dust is hostile soil. The greenhouse chemistry and stubborn horticulture behind our first harvest under the dome.
Read More →A regional storm can grow to planet-wide in weeks. The orbital signals and sky-color cues our crews use to call the shelter order early.
Read More →When every question to mission control takes forty minutes to round-trip, autonomy stops being a value and becomes survival.
Read More →One moon races the sky twice a day, the other barely moves. What the twin moons of Mars teach a settler about keeping a calendar.
Read More →No magnetosphere means no free shield. Why the safest roof on Mars is three metres of the regolith you already dug up.
Read More →Elevation, ice, sunlight and slope all fight for priority. How the crew narrowed a whole hemisphere down to a single touchdown ellipse.
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