The Rough Guide to Solar System Mountaineering
io9.com: “In the same way, imagining a tour of the solar system’s seven summits – the Seven Space Summits, if you will – provides a chance to examine the wildly different environments on our neighbor planets. Reaching the summits of Earth’s tallest mountains was one of the great adventures of the 20th century, and it made legends of climbers like Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. With Earth rapidly running out of records to break, the adventurer of the 21st and 22nd century is going to have to look skyward for new climbing challenges. Let’s take a look at the extraterrestrial mountains just waiting to be summited. To do that, we spoke to three experts on this rather unusual subject. Joe Romig is a space scientist and the coauthor of the lecture “Seven Summits Of The Solar System”, along with renowned climber Glen Porzak. Keith Cowing is a former NASA scientist and the current writer of NASA Watch, OnOrbit, and SpaceRef, as well as an amateur mountaineer. William Hartmann is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and the author, along with Ron Miller, of The Grand Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to the Solar System.” More at io9
Mountaineering and Climbing on Mars, earlier post
io9.com: “In the same way, imagining a tour of the solar system’s seven summits – the Seven Space Summits, if you will – provides a chance to examine the wildly different environments on our neighbor planets. Reaching the summits of Earth’s tallest mountains was one of the great adventures of the 20th century, and it made legends of climbers like Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. With Earth rapidly running out of records to break, the adventurer of the 21st and 22nd century is going to have to look skyward for new climbing challenges. Let’s take a look at the extraterrestrial mountains just waiting to be summited. To do that, we spoke to three experts on this rather unusual subject. Joe Romig is a space scientist and the coauthor of the lecture “Seven Summits Of The Solar System”, along with renowned climber Glen Porzak. Keith Cowing is a former NASA scientist and the current writer of NASA Watch, OnOrbit, and SpaceRef, as well as an amateur mountaineer. William Hartmann is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and the author, along with Ron Miller, of The Grand Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to the Solar System.” More at io9
Mountaineering and Climbing on Mars, earlier post
