With this design revampment I propose that the Nuclear Ant Lander is more carefully lowered to the surface rather than dropped like a lawn dart as the shock of impact in the former design would likely be catastrophic - for both the ants and the structural integrity of their interplanetary nursary.
To provide the ant colony with access to the surface, a special flux material will be released, heated by the landing rocket thrusters during descent. The flux will spill out and around the base of the craft, and harden in the cool martian environs, forming (hopefully) an air tight seal between the ant ship, and the martian soil surrounding it. High speed drills will then slowly bore as deep as possible beneath the surface of the "red planet", allowing the ants into the martian soil.
As before, elements stored in pressurized cylinders will be intermittantly released in appropriate ratios into the airtight void above the ant colony.
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