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Time to Head for Mars?

May 27, 2008 - 12:59 am - by Rand Simberg
Fat Jolly Penguin
2008-05-30 07:45:06

“Clarification requested. Isn’t the magnetic field of Mars so weak that a stay of just a few days would be dangerous?

Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field, but differing patterns of magnetic rock in its soil have shown that it did at one point. The solution to this is to develop some form of shielding system to protect the explorers; even what was used on the lunar missions wouldn’t be strong enough, since it didn’t entirely protect those astronauts from solar radiation.

Mars sounds great………..for liberals. It’s dark, cold, and desolate – just how they want the rest of us to be.

Ooh, you are evil. I like!