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#redmars

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I'm now re-reading the Red Mars trilogy. I laughed out loud when in Green Mars I read this: 'That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.'

I think I saw a mention of this here last week, but it was fun reading it in the book.

#anarchists#libertarians#redMars
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Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥

@Ailantd They need other rovers for support and to keep the operators from going crazy. I imagine this on Mars, with characters like those in #RedMars who travelled in rovers. The one in the drawing looks a little bigger: 2 levels of 500 sq.ft. each aft, one 100 sq.ft. control deck forward. It needs a machine shop, lab backup toilet, store room, air lock, galley, and quarters, all tiny. Reactor and drive are below. It sounds like exploration with time for introspection.

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Localization of the first trip to the North Pole in #KimStanleyRobinson's #RedMars, with a stop at Chasma Boreale, where an Ice Miner was dropped by air at coordinates 41 W, 83 N to extract water for use in Underhill.

The first map is a polar projection showing the trip from Underhill to the North Pole.

The second map is a detail of the approach to the pole, drawn on an #ESA #MarsExpress image processed by @andrealuck , from here: mastodon.social/@andrealuck@fo

#KSR#MarsTrilogy#Space
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Localization of the Transverse Highway, crossing Valles Marineris, from #KimStanleyRobinson's #RedMars; the annotations are from the description of John Boone's drive from Argyre through Melas Chasma to Underhill and then Echus Overlook.

The fourth image shows some traces of the fallen Space Elevator carbon fiber cable, as described in reports received during that sol, near the end of the novel.

#SciFi#KSR#Mars
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Burroughs and Bradbury Point are now localized with certainty, using my Little Assistant™to search #MarsTrilogy for cities and other geographical features. It came back with a treasure trove of results, but also made it clear that putting them in order will not be as easy as it seemed before.

As it turns out, the city Burroughs that came to be considered the "capital" of Mars before it was destroyed, was just 225km ESE of Jezero Crater!

The maps (#USGS DTMs):

#MarsTrilogyMaps#KSR#RedMars
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I've localized with certainty the landing site and base built by the First Hundred on Mars in September 2027, called Underhill. That's of course in Kim Stanley Robinson's SciFi Mars Trilogy, [Red | Green | Blue] Mars.

The key for this is the phrase:
"One day they came back excited, having reached Ganges Catena, a series of sinkholes in the plain a hundred kilometers to the southeast", around page 97 in Red Mars.

And here are the maps 🤓 :

#KSR#MarsTrilogy#RedMars
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