Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
Mars still remains the astrobiology community's number one choice for 'nearest rock with life,' but there are many researchers who argue that the moons of Jupiter are better bets. In particular, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all thought to hide vast oceans of liquid water beneath their icy, outer skins.
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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