Category:
Research Papers
Sub-Category:
Astrophysics
Date Published:
October 31, 2025
Abstract:
With a nod to Edgar Rice Burroughs and his novels about “John Carter of Mars”, we put forth this “Barsoom Initiative”. The Barsoom Initiative aims to create a new moon around Mars through the construction of an artificial accretion disc of harvested rocky bodies in the asteroid belt, leveraging advanced space mining technologies and to further – utilizing Martian brine lakes, water ice filled craters and icy asteroids for essential resource extraction. As a critical component, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will be retrofitted and relocated to Martian orbit to support asteroid location and mining operations and Martian exploration. This proposal outlines the key technologies, logistical considerations,
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