Sun GeneralSolar Power for a Better World

Mars Solar Radiation

	NOVA - Magnetic Storm List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $8.98 Used From: $5.71 Average Rating:
	Studio: Wgbh Wholesale Release Date: 02/17/2004 Run time: 60 minutes

DVD Information

Binding: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Brand:
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
Original Release Date: 2003-01-01
Actors:

	Mars: Prospective Energy and Material Resources List Price: $169.00 Sale Price: $150.32 Used From: $117.97
	The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars’s natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration and exploitation missions as well as subsequent human colonization...

The Core Question?

Today, Mars has no more magnetic field because its core cooled and stopped spinning. As a result, intense solar radiation is able to penetrate its atmosphere and reach the ground.

Your hypothesis assumes we overcome a lot of 'if's'. With these 'if's; overcome additional questions might be "did the core originally cool due to a lack of fuel or were there other causes"? Just 're-heating/re-melting' the core would not necessarily provide a sustainable 'melted/heated' core.

If we were able to sustain the core temperature would that necessarily return spin to the core? Theoretically yes, as the core would then have different density characteristics that the outer mantle and would therefore rotate at a different speed. Are there 'directional; considerations involving the spin?

Form your own ideas on that one.

The magnetic fields would be generated as a result of inducted field flux - would this flux be of sufficient intensity to deflect/nullify available solar radiation? You do the math.

Interesting question.

Our Moon has some interesting properties, which make it ideal for making concrete, it has an abundance of very fine moon dust. This would be a wonderful thing to make our moon base out of. It could be used along with nano-tube sheet manufacturing to make huge orbiting space stations which will be solid as a rock, 500 times stronger than steel per weight and able to protect our Orbiting colony and Moon colony from Solar Radiation.

One this concrete plant is fully operational, we can build a Mars Colony and take it there without worries of trying to life that heavy weight from the surface of the Earth. The power it would take to launch such a completed Space Colony building from Earth due to weight would be impossible with current human technology. However, moving a completed space station from the Moon to Mars would be a lot easier.

I propose getting a truckload of moon dust to screw around with to try to make some super building materials. Over 500 different combinations of materials were used to come up with the flexible concrete that is now being used which is 50 times stronger than steel and it can move without breaking. NASA Scientists are already planning using moon dust for all sorts of things.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05b.html

Many scientists have floated very similar ideas and we have all the technology, so we ought to go for it. If the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the moon gives you moon dust make a colony out of the stuff. Why not; think about it?

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.

	NOVA - Magnetic Storm List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $8.98 Used From: $5.71 Average Rating:
	Studio: Wgbh Wholesale Release Date: 02/17/2004 Run time: 60 minutes

DVD Information

Binding: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Brand:
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
Original Release Date: 2003-01-01
Actors:

	Mars: Prospective Energy and Material Resources List Price: $169.00 Sale Price: $150.32 Used From: $117.97
	The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars’s natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration and exploitation missions as well as subsequent human colonization...

Symphony of Science - 'The Case for Mars' (ft. Zubrin, Sagan, Cox & Boston)