Here on Mars, Life is Good

Here on Mars, we are fully committed to being an integrated part of the solar system. That is why we will complete an interplanetary internet link from Earth space to Mars space by 2008.

Our long term intent is to "terraform" Mars so that humans can walk about the surface of the planet without carrying bulky life support suits. Before we can do that, we will need to find significant sources of planetary water here. We have found many signs of water on Mars already. We just have to look a bit harder and deeper.

We Martians recently were treated to a nifty interplanetary flyby courtesy of the ESA and its probe Rosetta. Good luck to the Rosetta in its rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the year 2014.

Here on Mars we are actually planning to augment an already ongoing "global warming" from the sun--by orbiting a system of mirrors to amplify incoming solar radiation. On this planet, "global warming" is our friend. We are also planning to divert asteroidal and cometary materials to provide stocks of ammonia and other important volatiles.

For us "forerunner" robots, life is good here on Mars. We Martians intend to make things better for life every year--for cyborgs first, then for non-augmented humans, if there are any by then.

We look forward to greeting our ESA colleage Exomars, to help in the search for water and exo-biological life here on Mars.