I mean, I'd always assumed that Mars' atmosphere is ridiculously thin for altering trajectories or orbital capture; but it's nice to have the maths.
Aerobraking is mostly an Earthling thing. Gary Johnson notes that ablative tiles - tiles wot falls off - are the best way to do it; but once something is down here on Earth we just, like, slap new tiles on (11/14 an active field of study). I think aerobraking is what Elon's planning for the Starship which, remember, is what does the work in LEO before coming back 1819 November.
Venus is also good for aerobraking and assuredly quiet Titan. But the Martian atmo is too unpredictable.
Anyway this blog has been consistent that we normies don't colonise Mars directly. We colonise asteroids, and (so Nyrath has convinced me) Deimos. From Deimos just dangle a tether bro.
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