Solar System Planets

[Zeus.Hellas]

Is anyone interested in building a discussion about possible missions on the planets of the Solar System? More specific starting from Mercury and end to Pluto (and forget about the gas planets and Earth) what would be the problems of a mission when astronauts reach the surface and what could be the living of humans inside and outside the base within the extreme conditions of gravity, weather, temperature, pressure, chemical conditions and outer space threats sush us meteors and comets.

We could also talk about the approach of the spaceship on each planet in order with eac planet's orbit.

 

I hope my Franckenstanious English won't matter.

[Mercedes Benzene]

Emm. Perhaps you should check out the "spaceship desgin" subforum.

 

I think you'll be pleasantly :) surprised!

[UncleAl]

Any meat puppet confined outside the Earth' atmosphere, much less magnetosphere, will get fried. 760 torr equals a yard thickness of lead shielding mass/area (and without heavy element pair production). That is inside the magnetosphere that redirects the worst of charged cosmic radiation to the poles. Turn on a Geiger counter. Hear that? That is what gets through anyway.

 

Every ***-tronaught resident in Mir and ISS FUBAR got radiation cataracts. Many of the short duration flight meat puppets got them too. There is your built-in dosimeter that cannot be politically cleansed. Nobody goes round trip to Mars and survives.

 

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