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| - Though the telerobotic outpost would have no particular need of human habitation, a variety of simple unpressurized structures are likely to be employed, primarily for the purposes of wind and dust shelters creating reduced-dust environments for the repair of robots and the storage of service parts and supplies. On Mars, such simple shelters would also be used as protective shelters against dust storms and regolith-covered shelters might prove necessary as solar flare shelters to shield more delicate electronics. Of course, all these structures must be simple enough that the early outpost robots, with their somewhat small scale, few to no tools, and limited actuator dexterity, can effectively assemble them from parts that can survive the rigors of Rough Lander delivery.
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| - Though the telerobotic outpost would have no particular need of human habitation, a variety of simple unpressurized structures are likely to be employed, primarily for the purposes of wind and dust shelters creating reduced-dust environments for the repair of robots and the storage of service parts and supplies. On Mars, such simple shelters would also be used as protective shelters against dust storms and regolith-covered shelters might prove necessary as solar flare shelters to shield more delicate electronics. Of course, all these structures must be simple enough that the early outpost robots, with their somewhat small scale, few to no tools, and limited actuator dexterity, can effectively assemble them from parts that can survive the rigors of Rough Lander delivery. Eventually, as the scale of the outpost increases, there will be increasing human desire to go visit it and use it as a base of support for exploration, despite the fact that there is ultimately rather limited point or practicality to this before permanent habitats are constructed even given the obvious limitations of near-term telerobotics. Consequently, even before the outpost has begun concerted excavation of a permanent subterranean settlement habitat, the same simple structures used for unpressurized shelters in the telerobotic outpost may need to accommodate adaptation into simple pressurized shelters pre-deployed for early human visitors. In this section we will look at some of the likely types of structures to be employed in the early telerobotic outpost phase. We leave a detailed discussion of the more complex excavated settlement to another section.
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