Comments on: Growing Plants on Mars https://www.isegoria.net/2016/10/growing-plants-on-mars/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bomag https://www.isegoria.net/2016/10/growing-plants-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-2499127 Bomag Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:56:49 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=40916#comment-2499127 Thanks for the links.

The NASA study says Venus’s atmosphere would provide sufficient protection from cosmic radiation. I had thought that Venus’s lack of a magnetic field would require special protection for aerostatic habitats.

Vastly interesting.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2016/10/growing-plants-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-2498894 Isegoria Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:06:58 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=40916#comment-2498894 Venus turns out to be not so forbidding a planet.

]]> By: Bomag https://www.isegoria.net/2016/10/growing-plants-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-2498866 Bomag Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:42:28 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=40916#comment-2498866 I’m thinking the plans to use Venus are a bit better in the long run: closer to the sun, etc.

From what I understand, the Soviets staked a “claim” to Venus during the cold war and sent several missions there; our efforts went elsewhere. Now our institutional interest is away from Venus.

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