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Highlights: High levels  of surface radiation will  give you a warming glow.    Customer feedback: If  you like red, Mars is   the place for you—that   red dust gets everywhere!  ✰✰✰✰✰ Star rating:   the Great Red Spot—a huge  storm more than 24,900 miles   (40,000 km) across. Customer feedback: Insulation  is crucial, as radiation from  high-energy particles inside its  magnetic field can be a killer!  Star rating: ✰✰  ATTENTION, THRILL SEEKERS!  Our asteroid portfolio will ha
















      Description: With its  25-hour days and familiar  seasons, marvelous Mars   is the number-one destination   for first-time buyers.  Conditions: It can take some  time to get used to the thin  atmosphere and sandstorms.  Description: In a word: big! Conditions: You may find it  a very pleasant 70°F (21ºC)   at some locations on this gas  planet. Just don’t travel too   far toward the center—  it is hotter than the Sun!   Highlights: Marvel at   Description: One year here is  165




                                                    Highlights: Those rings  are unique, but watch out   for the orbiting chunks of rock! Customer feedback: If you’re  into extreme sailing, check out  the 932 mph (1,500 km/h)  winds at the equator.  Star rating: ✰✰  of Uranus’s extreme seasons,  which are 20 years long.  Customer feedback: Buy  now while it’s light! Uranus  rolls around its orbit, so each  pole alternates between  42-year nights and days.  Star rating: ✰✰✰













                                                    Description: Super Saturn  is an up-and-coming planet,  popular with pioneers.  Conditions: Most of Saturn’s upper regions are made   of gas, so it would definitely  benefit from having a surface    to land on.  Description: Its surface is  made of gas, but its icy liquid   core oozes charm.  Conditions: Light and airy  Uranus benefits from bracing  winds blowing at a very breezy  401 mph (645 km/h). Highlights: Enjoy the variety






                                              JUPITER
                    MARS
                                                                                                   Life-support systems failing  and need to get out fast? No  planet or moon is too big or  small. Waiting times can vary  depending on location   or solar activity. Casualties  dealt with discretely.
                                      Buy into a piece of history—this windswept location

                                        was first visited by a Mars rover back in 2006!





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