Angie D's List: Mars City Alpha

• • This video has some great information about just what the requirements would be to survive on mars for any length of time.
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• Water on Mars
• • Useful information to keep in mind when designing communications systems.
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• A Very Dangerous Mission
• The trip to Mars will take between four and six months, depending on the propulsion system used. After the interplanetary voyagers arrive on the Red Planet, they will have to remain there for approximately 18 months until the proper alignment of Earth and Mars allows them to blast off for home.
• inflatable modular housing unit
• 27 ft. (8.2 m) in diameter
• foot-thick protective shell when inflated
• the extreme Martian temperatures that range from –199°F (–128.3°C) during the polar night to 80°F (26.6°C) at the equator.
• specialized tools, drills, and analytical instruments
• using the planet's raw materials to provide fuel, oxygen, and most of the food for a primarily vegetarian diet.
• radio communications with mission controllers will be difficult because of the time delay between Mars and Earth. Depending on Mars's distance from Earth, which can vary by as much as 200 million mi. (322 km), radio signals from the planet can take anywhere from 4 minutes to 21 minutes to reach Earth.
• Health Issues a Priority

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• Geology
• Hydrology
• Geography
• Atmosphere
• Climate
• Mars's seasons are the most Earth-like
• lengths of the Martian seasons are about twice those of Earth's, as Mars’ greater distance from the Sun leads to the Martian year being about two Earth years in length. Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about −140 °C (−220 °F) during the polar winters to highs of up to 20 °C (68 °F) in summers.^[20] The wide range in temperatures is due to the thin atmosphere which cannot store much solar heat, the low atmospheric pressure, and the low thermal inertia of Martian soil.^[55]
• Exploration
• Future missions
• Manned Mars exploration by the United States has been explicitly identified as a long-term goal in the Vision for Space Exploration announced in 2004 by US President George W. Bush.^[96]

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• All you ever wanted to know about mars - Angie D on 2008-11-22

• Relative similarity to Earth
• Differences from Earth
• surface gravity on Mars
• no standing bodies of liquid water on the surface of Mars.
• Habitability
• Terraforming of Mars
• Radiation
• Communication
• Early human missions
• Possible locations for colonies
• Concerns

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• Specific requirements for colonization - Angie D on 2008-11-22

• General information about mars - Angie D on 2008-11-22

• Environmental impacts
• Types of aquaculture

• What is aquaculture? - Angie D on 2008-11-22

• What is Aquaculture? – What does the term "aquaculture" mean? Does this form of food production include fish, shellfish, plants, animals or all of the above?
• News & Notices – What's new in aquaculture and what’s coming up?

• • Nice glossary of aquaculture terms
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• Nice glossary fo aquaculture terms - Angie D on 2008-11-22