DRONES TO SCOPE OUT MARTIAN REAL ESTATE

摘要

In October, NASA released its plan for getting to Mars. The trip is a long way off (we're talking decades), but the agency says it's gearing up: "Like the Apollo Program, we embark on this journey for all humanity. Unlike Apollo, we will be going to stay." Easier said than done. Aside from the unbreathable atmosphere and wonky gravity, the radiation on Mars could cause brain damage, cancer, and death. Our best bet for survival may be to hunker down in the protection of lava tubes-networks of tunnels created billions of years ago by molten rock. We can't send rovers in for recon though. The pits can be 100 meters deep, and the thick walls (and lag time) make real-time radio communication impossible.