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Why Colonizing This Planet Is No Picnic

Mars is freezing, highly irradiated, and far away

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 15, 2012 5:16 PM CDT

(Newser) – NASA hopes Curiosity will do more than fire lasers and dig up water while visiting Mars. The trip is also a precursor to colonizing the Red Planet, even though such a mission would be expensive, dangerous, and lonely for astronauts who take the journey of...   Read full story »

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