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Nuking Mars' polar ice caps is a good place to start. It will force greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, which will promote the raising of temperatures and f
by salesguy222 9y ago
Nuking Mars' polar ice caps is a good place to start.
It will force greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, which will promote the raising of temperatures and formation of liquid water.
Then maybe people will want to live there- the rest will be history :)
- sonium 9y agoThe problem is really the lack of a magnetic field. Even if you manage to increase the atmospheric pressure, ionizing particles strip it away. What you would need to build is a superconducting ring on the equator to generate a artificial magnetic field. Unfortunatly the amount of material required with current superconducting materials (for a magnetic field compared to earth's) is several times the world-production and we don't even know how abundant the materials are on mars. But we can always hope for a breakthrough in super-conductance research.
- mrfusion 9y agoThis has been debunked many times. Even with no magnetic field an atmosphere can last thousands of years.
- BurningFrog 9y agoPeople already want to live there. A small minority, sure, but far more than we'll have capacity to send there for a very long time.