Which would you rather live on? Mars or Venus: a comparison

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To start with, Earth has an axial tilt of 23.4°, Mars 25°, and Venus 178°. The axial tilt determines the possibility of seasons. Mars' axial tilt is very similar to Earth's but Venus' axial tilt is way out there.

The length of day on Mars is 1.026 Earth days (or about 24 hours and 39 minutes). The length of day on the planet Venus is 243.02 Earth days and Venus rotates in the opposite direction of both Earth and Mars.

The length of year on Mars is about twice as long as on Earth though, 686.98 Earth days. The length of year on Venus is 224.7 Earth days, which is 18.3 Earth days shorter than its own day.

The mean average temperature on Earth is positive 46.1°F, on Mars it is negative 45.7°F, and on Venus it is positive 847°F. Making Mars frigid and Venus a furnace. Perhaps food could be cooked on Venus and sent for storage on Mars...

Links:

Earth: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/earth.htm

Mars: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/mars.htm

Venus: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/venus.htm

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I think I'd rather be living on Mars than on Venus.

earth, but in a flying castle in the sky above the clouds. "away from it all."

A "flying castle in the sky above the clouds", if anything, would be a military space station. The only example to date though are the Soviet Salyut 3 & 5 Almaz stations which had a small automatic cannon mounted along their main axes.

just like that rich industrialist in the movie "contact."

If it was in any way possible, I'd love to live on Titan for a while. Just to go exploring.
Of course I would probably have to steal some bodysuits from NASA, so I wouldn't freeze to death, but I'm sure they're very cooperative in that aspect.

I would much rather live on Mars than Venus. Aside from the obvious "Venus' atmosphere would cook me in two seconds flat" factor, the scenery seems a lot less awesome. I'd love to see Olympus Mons, for example.

Venus temperature is 460 °C (860 °F) or more. That is due to greenhouse gases.

You'd be sorely disappointed unless you were viewing it from the air, and there ain't enough air to fly a plane on Mars. Mars is quite small, and the horizon is consequently too close to get a good view of many of the sights from the ground. Though the caldera would probably look good if you trekked up there.

I think VM is too wide to see across, too. It's a shame that such grand scenery is on such a little planet!

I'll go for Venus, though I'd want a bloody big sun shade and a new atmosphere first.

I was obsessed with the anime movie Laputa because I so dreamed of being able to live on a floating island like that!
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But given the choice of which planet, I chose earth, because, well, I wouldn't really be able to survive on the others....but, I have always wished my conciousness could see these places

Mars

I don't anything could be engineered to stand up to 100 bar' atmosphere on venus or 900 * with sulfuric acid precipitation.

?? Ambivalence or keet ' ; Years ago I followed some info on 'titan's' meterology and they (scientist') claim that liquid methane is on the surface and that a methane weather system precipitates this.
I seemed conjecture/speculation to me at that point as I haven't read/heard of any hard evidence.

What do you think ; anything new?

Venus lol
cause I wanna have acid raining on me
earth and mars are the only planets in the solar system we can live on
anything else is too hot, too cold or a gas planet

I want to live on the moon.

Titan's the right temperature for methane to be present in solid, liquid, and gas phases. It's also colder than Mars, something to do with radius squared.

exactly!



shirley maclaine seemed convinced that one's spirit could travel to "these places" and report back to the conscious mind later, especially under the influence of exotic drugs.

Mars would be the better planet for me, because I tend to heat very easily.