Structures and Resources-Potentially Useful Info

Hey everyone.

Here is a link to th homepage of the NASA Space Settlement Contest this contains further full downloadables PDF files of all the winners till 2009. This may help us rule out what kind of structure to consider in order to avoid repetition and preserve the uniqueness of whatever we will design.

http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Contest/

Also, since the proposed space city will be in Mars's lower orbit, a few links on the basic resources that may be exploited:-

And all of you MUST do up the Wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars

Also see:-

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/tlc/30786-destination-mars-making-fuel-from-mars-atmosphere-video.htm

(^ Its a good video,do see it.)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/05/MN0G1253QT.DTL

Any potential in the polar Ice Caps? (As discussed in the meeting)
Do check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planum_Australe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planum_Boreum


Till then, all you inactive members-get cracking,won't you?

Sannidhi Sharma
Email: sannidhisharma@hotmail.com