1) Yep, she's one of the scientists! She, uh... hmmm. She studies, um... extremophiles! Yes, that's it. It's not that they've found Martian extremophiles, but they're using Earthborn extremophiles to begin the (centuries-long) terraforming process.
2) Quite a while - eight months, counting a stop at the Moon to pick up liquid oxygen, hydrogen, and liquid water. The ship is in two segments - the part that's gotten them to Mars, and with which they'll reunite later, which is a large cylinder, and the part that'll get them down onto Mars and then back off Mars, which is more like a beet, complete with leaves.
3) Her liquid breakfast (mentioned in the previous post) tastes like blueberries. That's because it is in fact made from blueberries. They don't eat that one very often because it stains so readily.
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Date: 2009-10-24 01:24 am (UTC)2) Quite a while - eight months, counting a stop at the Moon to pick up liquid oxygen, hydrogen, and liquid water. The ship is in two segments - the part that's gotten them to Mars, and with which they'll reunite later, which is a large cylinder, and the part that'll get them down onto Mars and then back off Mars, which is more like a beet, complete with leaves.
3) Her liquid breakfast (mentioned in the previous post) tastes like blueberries. That's because it is in fact made from blueberries. They don't eat that one very often because it stains so readily.