/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11195200
there is not even rocket yet, no modules, no astronaut training, it's underfunded, always behind schedule and next administration may stop it, it's not worth talking about until there is everything ready
Elon will land on Mars before NASA is ready to go back to the Moon.

>>10028283
Are you kidding? The largest ressource in antarctica is fresh water. E.g. there are 90% of all fresh water on Earth. You can extract it easily, It's literally everywhere. You just need to heat it up a bit. There is also silver, copper, gold, nickel, platinum, iron ore, chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, zinc, manganese lead, titanium, nickel, and uranium, coal, gas and oil.

Challenges are
-Need for suitable mining technology
-Wealth of minerals easily available in other parts of the world
-Resistance from environmentalists such as Greenpeace and World Wide Fund for Nature
-Antarctica's distance from industrialized areas
Transportation costs
-Extremely dangerous terrain

The only ore on Mars we know of is iron. To make steel we would also need coal and oxygen. This does not exist on Mars.

This planet offers nothing we would ever need. We will go there, plant a flag, leave and never come back. Just what we did on the Moon.