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'We thought it was impossible:' Water frost on Mars discovered near Red Planet's equator (www.space.com)

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[-] SatouKazuma@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

Don't send Elon, though. I'd rather we not contaminate the planet.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

I'd rather contaminate Mars with him than Earth.

[-] SatouKazuma@ani.social 0 points 5 months ago

Let's just launch him into the Sun.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Sadly, it takes a shit ton of energy to get things to the sun. Everything is moving very quickly around the sun. You need the opposite amount of energy to fall in.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

You only need enough energy to get it down to the orbit of Venus, plus a little bit extra for some gravity assists around Venus and Jupiter. Those will shoot it to the edge of the solar system where a tiny bit of thrust will kill the remaining angular momentum and let it fall back into the sun.
Oh, and it will take a century.