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The Rock That Broke Open Mars

A rover wheel fractured an ordinary stone in Gediz Vallis. Inside: yellow crystals no mission had confirmed on Mars — native elemental sulfur.

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The Last Meters of Dust

Starship can cross millions of miles of vacuum. Return fuel cannot. Ice sits beyond 40°, the equator is where you want to land, and Arcadia is a thin overlap under meters of abrasive dust.

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The Lopsided Planet

Collision versus the internal cauldron. Strip the atmosphere, exaggerate the topography, and Mars is not a sphere — it is a scar. 6 km of crust at Isidis, 117 km under Tharsis, a 5 km step at the equator.

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The megawatt bottleneck

Deriving the Martian surface power budget. 3.4 MW for propellant. Solar dies in a storm. Fission is the gate.

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