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Agree with other replies that there's no need to match with Earth Year because that too is completely arbitrary. Already, if you know the time on Earth, then you can calculate the time on Mars.

I know this because I write an app that does this!

Check out MarsTime at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.digitaltrust.marstime

100 million percent The Mars Trilogy

Absolutly Fantastic series about the terraforming and colonization of Mars. Gets deep in to the nitty gritty of the engineering and science as well as the social and political aspects.

> Natural formation in Atlantis Chaos region

With all those squares we'd be forgiven for thinking it was an artificial formation, so that may be what you're alluding to in title.

Could you start by giving some kind of reference so we know where the image is from and what processing it may have undergone

I believe there are polygonal tundra terrains on both Earth and Mars. These are due to some kind of cyclic interaction between regolith and ice.

Edit It seems they're called "polygonal ridge networks". Now, if you would kindly give some kind of context for your photo, we might be able to make some intelligent interpretations ;)

I love this one, the first ever image of Mars taken from close up (in this case by Mariner 4).

The image was beamed back to Earth as a string of numbers corresponding to shades of gray, but the processing power at the time was so limited that Dick Grumm at JPL got impatient. He took the strips of numbers and pasted them to the wall, got some art crayons, guesstimated shades of yellow and brown, and coloured in the strips like some interplanetary paint-by-number.

This is the result, a large area in the vicinity of the Phlegra Montes. You can see Dick Grumm's initials ((RLG) in the lower right of it.

he was on The Space Show podcast yesterday and mentioned his Google Talk, perhaps that triggered a push...unfortunately he also mentioned the libraries used to code the app are owned by the game company for which he worked

maybe if there were enough interest he would work with folks to rewrite an open-source version?

also if you are interested in the program Inspiration Mars used to plan their trajectory, contact https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncarrico

> Great input

It was OP who provided the detail of the source info, following my request.

> hadn't even noticed the sound being available. My awe largely pertained to seeing a world entirely alien, yet it feeling so familiar.

There are some fantastic planetary pictures around, especially of the Martian surface. For all who had previously only seen monochrome pictures of Mars from orbit, the first 1975 Viking lander pictures were incredible.

Other landers and rovers since, such as Sojourner, Spirit and Oportunity have enriched our view of Mars. As communications improve, we have actual video. See the Mars Perseverance landing.

The current decade is the best ever for following surface work on Mars and the Moon. If it lives up to its promises, it will be far better than even Apollo.

I'm a huge fan of open source. Depending on where this project ends up, I may release it to the community. Probably under non-commercial CC.

I think the timing is premature to get help as I am still building the core game engine. In the long term though I am looking for people who can stick around. Like I said in the post, consistency is really important to the game. So a partner artist/coder/designer who will give just a month or two isn't a lot of use to me. There is an email subscription thing at the bottom of the blog. In the future I may need people and it would be great to hear from you again as it would prove you give a shit :P

And when I am looking for people I'd like to see some past projects you've done too, if possible.

Also, if you have any science articles or unique ideas about early Mars colonization, that would definitely be a help.

Toodles.

For a simulation of cosmic rays of different energies interacting with several shielding materials, you might have a look at this DOE 2011 study, "Cosmic Ray Interactions in Shielding Materials".

And soon we could have electric food which basically sounds like an accelerated bacterial culturing technology, but only needs air, water, electricity, bacteria and a few minerals to grow all the food we need. So in addition to any future Martian base or O'Neil colony using algae-proteins, growing kelp to feed to vat-meat (stem-cell meat grown in a vat) and good old fashioned greenhouse aqua-ponics that could feed our base or habitat many times over, we could use "electric food". https://tinyurl.com/y85u6xuc