Mars [electronic resource] : prospective energy and material resources / Viorel Badescu (ed.)

The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars’s natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration and exploitation missions as well as subsequent...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Badescu, Viorel
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, ©2009.
Subjects:	Mars (Planet) > Exploration. Mars (Planet) > Geology. Mars (Planet) > Atmosphere. Space flight to Mars. Atmosphere. Exploration of Mars (Planet) Geology. Mars (Planet)