Name | Description | Proximity | Viability Rating | Commentary |
Rad-Suits | Personalized protection from cosmic rays | Near | High | Essential for working on the surface, and a technology which is already in use, though probably open to improvement |
Rover Construction | Near | High | Rovers. Good, useful, essential, for transport and construction. Powered by electricity, electrolysed hydrogen or even nuclear power, and could be largely 3D printed | |
Martian Trains | Far | Medium | In theory trains might be more efficient in low atmospheres and gravity and there’s certainly be plenty of room to build tracks. However, you’d need large enough population Centre’s to link to make them worth while | |
Zeppelin Travel | Cheap travel between Martian cities | Far | Low | Romantic but silly. The atmospheric pressure needed to make them work would be difficult to achieve, Aeroplanes would be easier, and surface transport much easier |
Transorbital 