Mining the Moons of Mars

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Mining the Moons of Mars

# 11101 bysailorbarsoom@... on Jan. 4, 2009, 11:59 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

Very good stuff. Of course I had to chuckle at this:

|||||Such large scale mining operations on the Martian Moons|||||
|||||would probably require a significant human presence on |||||
|||||the surface of Mars which would allow humans to operate|||||
|||||such facilities mostly by remote control in the |||||
|||||relatively healthier gravitational environment on the |||||
|||||surface of Mars. It would also be much more convenient |||||
|||||and cheaper for humans to access the Martian moons via |||||
|||||rocket from the surface of Mars than from Earth. |||||

Well OK, but wouldn't it be even more convenient for the
Deimos-miners to live in a spinning one-G habitat located,
say, a hundred Km away from Deimos? The material for the
pressure shell could come from Deimos itself and mass less
than a thousand tons, with the tailings from platinum mining
making up the radiation shield.