Could a blimp house an entire colony on Mars?
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What is surface to weight ratio needed to help slow the decent onto Mars?
Assembled and inflated in space could a blimp be big enough to include everything needed to jump start a colony and land?
On Earth it would be buoyant where on Mars it would not but could it have enough surface area and wing shape to shed speed slowly as a high altitude glider? The skin of the blimp has heat and radiation shielding.
Like this much larger like a pyramid.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/nasa-tests-inflatable-heat-shield-technology-for-deep-space-missions
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