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How about we mine mars to make solar panels from Iron Oxide? Or bring machines to mars that will build solar panels?

Then we could have an entire electrical power source for human habitation or machine experiments.



Getting to the point where the amount of energy it will require to get the panels out of Mars' gravity will be less than the energy delivered will take a long time. And what are you going to do when something breaks down?


You're 32 years late on that idea: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/


As it stands, we have not yet built a factory using exclusively robots. I'm sure that this would have very useful applications on Earth, as well as on Mars, if you were interested in tackling it :).





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