NASA Craft To Leave Vesta Heads For Dwarf Planet Ceres

One tiny problem with that, though: Ceres is a bit further out from the sun than Mars... as in way the hell out there. [wikipedia.org]

It does have potential for fueling an orbital colony or, well, any colony that isn't at the bottom of a big gravity well. OTOH, if Mars is a screamer of a target to hit, I can only imagine what it would take to hit a relatively microscopic-sized target that's way further out, and somewhat surrounded by asteroids.

Sounds like fun, though.

Should be no problem, especially once Dawn gets there and nails down the orbit.

Note, however, that there is plenty of water on Mars, a good deal of it accessible from the surface at the poles.

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