"Go colonize Mars instead".

What was the point of the mission? To save humanity.

How? By evacuating all of Earth on huge space stations to another planet, accessible through a black hole near Saturn... And you need to gather data about the singularity to finish the antigravity equation to do it.

1 direct trip from Earth to Saturn = 8 ROUND trips from Earth to Mars.

So... "Go colonize Mars instead".

Also, the robot design was very impractical.

P.S. Who colonizes/lands on a planet with a "1 hour = 7 years outside" time anomaly?! Pointless suicide!.