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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!
Victoria Crater LITTLE
GREEN MEN REMOVALS
URANUS
SATURN
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