Using the resources of Mars for human settlement

Science and Technology Series

Volumn 86, Issue , 1996, Pages 393-442

  Meyer, Thomas R ^a   McKay, Christopher P ^b  

^a Boulder Ctr for Science and Policy   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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