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Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.

Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣

#FreeAssociation

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (319°) from RMC 51.2390
Sol 1109, LMST: 11:47:39

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01109/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1109_0765388746_706EBY_N0512390ZCAM09130_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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#InterPlanetary 🪐 #SpaceTravel might get easier

Mice’s 🐁 organs and tissues resumed a #youthful state.
The therapy “set in motion an epigenetic program that led cells to restore the #epigenetic information they had when they were #young. It’s a permanent #reset.” https://hms.harvard.edu/news/loss-epigenetic-information-can-drive-aging-restoration-can-reverse

#epigenome #epigenetics #ForeverYoung #MarsTrilogy #SciFi

Localization of the first trip to the North Pole in #KimStanleyRobinson's #RedMars, with a stop at Chasma Boreale, where an Ice Miner was dropped by air at coordinates 41 W, 83 N to extract water for use in Underhill.

The first map is a polar projection showing the trip from Underhill to the North Pole.

The second map is a detail of the approach to the pole, drawn on an #ESA #MarsExpress image processed by @andrealuck , from here: https://mastodon.social/@andrealuck@fosstodon.org/110327396095633780

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I've localized with certainty the landing site and base built by the First Hundred on Mars in September 2027, called Underhill. That's of course in Kim Stanley Robinson's SciFi Mars Trilogy, [Red | Green | Blue] Mars.

The key for this is the phrase:
"One day they came back excited, having reached Ganges Catena, a series of sinkholes in the plain a hundred kilometers to the southeast", around page 97 in Red Mars.

And here are the maps 🤓 :

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And the South Pole:

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Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.

Here are some maps I made while reading the books several years ago, showing cities, places and plot info. The background is a USGS Topographical Map from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/USGS-PlanetMars-TopographicalMap.png

Corrections and new locations will be posted to this thread.

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@andrealuck
Bennett's designs are by far the best I've found for #KSR's Mars novels, but are now hard to locate in the internets. Here's another one I've saved on disk several years ago:

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@andrealuck
Here is William Bennett's concept of asteroid Clarke which was used as the ballast for the Space Elevator in Kim Stanley Robinson's #MarsTrilogy. In the novels, Phobos was also made a military base or something, which had a unique architectural design, IIRC.

Bennett has had some other interesting ideas about Mars colonies, equipment etc.

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Suppose I'll do an #interests posts? #introduction

#MarsTrilogy / #KimStanleyRobinson
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#Cinema
#SpeculativeFiction
#ScienceLearning
#CurrentAffairs
#ClimateCrisis
#Collapse
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