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Letter: Is Mars colony plan on shaky foundations?

Published 30 April 2025

From Robert Jaggs-Fowler, Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire, UK

If thousands of quakes are rocking the northern part of Mars during its summer, then, presumably, only its southern hemisphere may be a relatively safe place to establish a self-sustaining human mission. Hopefully this has been taken into account in any plan for a Mars community (22 March, p 13).

Issue no. 3541 published 3 May 2025

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