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The invisible problem with sending people to Mars - Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Liquid water under Mars' surface could be a huge upside if we can confirm it's there and figure out how to get to it

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

The moon has water too, and melting it is NBD, so they're actually equal there for real estate purposes.

For scientific purposes liquid water is interesting, but it's much easier to send a robot than all the various amenities needed for human scientists, and probably always will be.