Category Archives: Mars

Will the first off-world city of a million people be on Mars or in a Space Habitat?

Posted on 19 March, 2022 by Eclipse Now

Mars I’ve always been a fan of Mars because I think I could more easily imagine how such a thing could grow from a village of 500 to a town of 10,000 to a city of millions to a planet … Continue reading →

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Air-mattress design on Mars deals with outward pressure AND radiation

Posted on 26 January, 2022 by Eclipse Now

This ‘air-mattress’ structure is huge – with an internal space of a few stories high. It contains the enormous atmospheric pressures that want to explode outwards at 34 tons per meter by building a series of spheres or joined tubes. … Continue reading →

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Future Martians might fetch Nitrogen from Titan

Posted on 1 May, 2021 by Eclipse Now

Mars experts used to think we could cook up Mars with super-greenhouse gases and maybe a few giant space mirrors beaming extra sunlight down, and that this would release so much frozen CO2 and other atmospheric gases (volatiles) which would … Continue reading →

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What’s all the fuss about Insight on Mars?

Posted on 27 November, 2018 by Eclipse Now

This is a nice Lockheed Martin piece animating everything Insight had to get right just to land on Mars. 3 minutes This Australian scientist explains why the probe will be so groundbreaking — pun intended. 😉  5.5 minutes Mars. It’s … Continue reading →

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Imagine your car flying to Mars

Posted on 24 November, 2018 by Eclipse Now

Imagine being able to tell your sons “Look at the car in space. You guys have been in that car. I’ve driven you in that car!” as they watch the car float off to Mars on the big screen! I’ve … Continue reading →

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