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But the moon's atmosphere does less. Just gotta look at the pictures of the surfaces, the moon takes a regular pounding from every piece of crap in the system. Mars get's hit, hell Earth get's hit, but it's not as bad (still bad, not AS bad). Also Mars is in a better spot in the gravity well, space junk flocks to Earth and the moon shields us pretty well.

The punchline is we'll have to try it on the moon first, but Mars needs to be the goal, then Io. Then out of the system completely.

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Just gotta look at the pictures of the surfaces, the moon takes a regular pounding from every piece of crap in the system.

The moon looks that way because, unlike on Earth, everything that hits it leaves it’s mark for hundreds of millions of years.