Ok, I could buy that, but why didn't they just stay the first time instead of burying ships and leaving?
Maybe they were prepositioning equipment in the same way the US has prepositioned equipment in places like Diego Garcia. It's all about the contingency plans; we don't know what sort of "operations" are going on in other theaters, etc. or the political, economic, or environmental situation on Mars (though we could make some good guesses...)...
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