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Earth is called the cradle of mankind. But humanity cannot forever remain in the cradle. With the beginning of the space age began talk about the colonization of Mars. Today independently several projects are developed, different in methods implementation and goals. One of them, along with a mole will fly to the Red Planet. In addition to eternal desire human “look beyond the horizon” the colonization of Mars has a purely practical value. The planet is rich in minerals, which on Earth every year is becoming less and less: copper, tungsten, iron and many others. One of the first on the list Rhenium is the rarest metal on Earth. His world reserves amount to a little over 13.000 tons. Pure Rhenium on Earth almost never found, it is extracted from copper and molybdenum raw materials. One of the largest deposits (15 tons) located in Russia on the island of Iturup Kuril ridge. (Now you it’s clear why the Japanese have such a pain in the Kuril Islands?) getting one kg of rhenium – about $ 1,000, the cost of pure rhenium rolls over for $ 2,000. Refractory and dense rhenium is used in electronic industry, from steel with rhenium additives jet engines. On Mars, rhenium exists in its pure form and is very common. Mining much needed by the future the rhenium colonists will carry out small mobile parties, moving from one field to another. Here and moles come in handy. According to the authors of the project, rhenium producers it will be enough to analyze the land thrown by the moles to determine the presence (or absence) of a mineral in the soil. Shaggy the animals will carry out the functions of geological exploration parties. Of course, moles are unlikely to end up in the first ship, following on Mars. In the first stage of colonization directly on the surface at Neither humans nor animals can live on a red planet. First settlers will live in domed villages and underground bunkers. But large-scale work on changing conditions is planned. life on Mars: climate change, the creation of the ozone layer, acceptable atmospheric pressure; enrichment of the atmosphere with oxygen. A dead planet will become living: plants and small ones will appear on it invertebrates. Scientists call this “terraforming.” Then and the time will come to go to hardworking animals in space journey.
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