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| New Laser Technology To Propel Huma |
| New Laser Technology To Propel Humans To Mars In 3 Days?
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| INDIA
, 22-February-2016
12:28:51 PM |
| For humans to arrive at the Red Planet with the available technology, it will approximately take five months to touch down on the Martian surface. NASA researchers are now working on a new laser technology that can send humans to Mars in just three days.
The idea is to use lasers to propel spacecraft with giant sails to Mars in just three days and this is no science fiction.
The new "photonic propulsion" system relies on the momentum of photons - particles of light - to move forward.
But instead of photons from the Sun's rays, the design from NASA scientist Philip Lubin will involve a push by giant Earth-based lasers to the spacecraft, sciencealert.com reported.
According to Mr Lubin, the technology is very much readily available and that the system could easily be scaled up.
"There are recent advances that take this from science fiction to science reality. There is no known reason why we cannot do this," Mr Lubin was quoted as saying.
Despite not having any mass, particles of light have both energy and momentum
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