What resources are there on Mars?

Answer 1

1. yes

1. there is water on the polar ice caps

1. there is solar power and possibly wind power

1. there are volcanoes like Olympus Mons

1. there is dust and sand

1. That is it

1. yes
2. there is water on the polar ice caps
3. there is solar power and possibly wind power
4. there are volcanoes like Olympus Mons
5. there is dust and sand
6. That is it

Answer 2

Useful resources on Mars:

--?Deuterium

. Deuterium is Hydrogen 2 (with a proton and a neutron) and it is used by scientists for experiments and can be used to make CANDU nuclear reactors (that don't need enriched uranium). Right now it costs ~$10,000 / kg. But this price will only rise when we get fusion reactors as it is VERY energy dense. We know that Mars has 5 times more deuterium than Earth so it will be 5 times cheaper to collect on Mars than on Earth. We also know Mars has plenty of water so Mars will have lots of it.?

--?Strategic Metals

. In the solar system only Earth and Mars have had complex geological histories involving volcanism and water. These processes concentrate elements - Simply Earth has ores where Luna our moon has undifferentiated junk rock. Mars is very likely to also have concentrated useful ores.?

-- Mantle uprisings. Related to the above, is mantle uprising on Earth and Mars. In northern South Africa there is the Bushveld Igneous Complex which is thought to be an uprising of magma right from the the Earth's mantle. It is incredibly rich, with >1/2 of all the Earth's Strategic Metals especially platinum. (80% of Earth's platinum comes from this complex.) Other extremely valuable metals include: palladium, osmium, iridium, rhodium, and ruthenium, and there are vast quantities of iron, tin, chromium, titanium, gold, chromium, and vanadium. Mars has a very large core and very thin mantle so it is thought that such mantle uprising will be COMMON on that planet. In particular, it is thought that the metal palladium may be so common on Mars that it will be as cheap as silver!?

-- Low Gravity and position. Mars' gravity is a bit less than 1/3 Earth's. This means that if you have to ship stuff to the?asteroids

?or to Luna, it is a lot cheaper to come from Mars than from Earth. This suggests a triangle trade: High tech, low mass goods from Earth to Mars. Low tech massive goods including clothes, food, general supplies from Mars to the Asteroids & Luna. And strategic metals from the asteroids to Earth and carbon and water from the asteroids to Luna. Each step of this trade can be profitable and the three together can be a money making engine.

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But to ship these resources to Earth, we have to move them thru space. How expensive is it to move tonnes of material many millions of kilometers? Actually, moving material thru space, is very, very cheap. Once you get it moving it coasts forever so if you are not in a hurry it takes only a small delta vee (change in velocity) to move something a very long way. Methane / oxygen rocket fuel is very easily made on mars with a reverse watershift reactor and once the resources are in space they can be boosted to Earth cheaply.

However, once in space there are even cheaper ways to move stuff around. A solar sail reflects light to give a small delta vee. A big mirror can move stuff around the solar system for 'free' (that is to say, not requiring fuel) if you are not in a hurry. However, a magnetic sail is a big loop of conductor with an electric current. It makes a magnetic field that can gain delta vee from the solar wind. It now looks that a magnetic sail is easier to build and 50 times more powerful than a solar sail. Using magnetic sails, anything that costs as much as gold or more can be shipped profitably back to Earth.

So if we had a colony on Mars there are plenty of things that it would be worthwhile for industrialists to ship around for a nice big profit.

Source(s):"The Geology of Mars: Evidence from Earth Based Analogs" Edited by Mary Chapman, published by Cambridge Planetary Science. // This is a university level geology textbook.

"The Case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin. A basic primer on exploration, colonization and terraforming Mars. It is in print and inexpensive.

"Entering Space" by Robert Zubrin. A very good book for learning about the economics of solar system exploration.

"Mars: A Warmer Wetter Planet". This book reviews the evidence for periodic periods of higher pressure warmer climates and gives strong evidence that Mars for the first billion years of its life had ice topped oceans.?

"Moons and Planets: 5th Edition" a very good introductory text on planetology.

Answer 3

mars have a lil bit of nasty things but it is ok out the it has a long thing that it is 3 feet long

Answer 4

it give us information