Mars Soil Is 'Too Clumpy' Shocker!

[tdr1nka]

It's Official, Mars is 'too clumpy'!

They're having more luck with this lander than others before it but still, you'd have thought some bod might have factored in 'clumpiness' somewhere in the remit?

 

[Dayvo]

If you want something done, do it yourself!
Just can't get the staff, nowadays!

 

[bonj2]

like i say, all the fellas with mtbs will be laughing when we all have to emigrate there due to climate change.

 

[rich p]

I think they were after some nice Red Desirees on Mars

 

[ufkacbln]

It's simple - water is causing the clumping.........problem solved.

 

[piedwagtail91]

It's simple - water is causing the clumping.........problem solved.

or oil!
no must be water they haven't invaded

 

[Abitrary]

like i say, all the fellas with mtbs will be laughing when we all have to emigrate there due to climate change.

I'm pretty sure that NASA have already done a study into potential means of transport on mars, and most traditional bicycles have been ruled out due to the vastly different gravity ratio.

I saw a diagram of something that looked like a 3 wheel recumbent, steel framed to take the force of the gravity. Suspension forks are a no-no because they'd be constantly bottoming out due to the G.

 

[Mr Pig]

I liked the fact that after the landing the news announced 'fantastic new images of Mars', then showed us pictures that looks exactly the same as every other picture of Mars you've ever seen!

 

[Aperitif]

I think they were after some nice Red Desirees on Mars

Mars Pipers..

 

[tdr1nka]

That being the 'Mars Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'?

 

[Keith Oates]

But did it have mudguards?

Shouldn't that be Clumpyguards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Night Train]

It's simple - water is causing the clumping.........problem solved.

If it is water, and that is quite likely, then that will be an amazing discovery. Water that accessible on the surface will mean that it would be possible to plan manned landings.

 

[Fab Foodie]

If it is water, and that is quite likely, then that will be an amazing discovery. Water that accessible on the surface will mean that it would be possible to plan manned landings.

Yeah, but why go there? The scenery is pretty awful and there's no atmosphere... it's the solar system's equivelent of a nightclub in Skegness.

 

[Night Train]

There has been talk of trips that are effectively one way by sending up plant to produce the return trip fuel first and then sending people with only enough fuel to get there.

I know who I would send there to see if it works.

Seriously though, if I was younger, fitter and suitably qualified I'd want to go just to be able to do some of the first research on environment building. I just hope that if humans settle there then they do a better job then they have done on Earth.

 

[Yellow Fang]

But if you did send Bonj up there with some lady astronaut they'd populate the whole planet.

Anyway, surely it doesn't matter if they muck up Mars. It's not that great at the minute.