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Actually found an interesting article about this. Sounds like it's just more of an energy expense with a small amount of benefit. https://space.stackexchange.c
by kraig911 8y ago
Actually found an interesting article about this. Sounds like it's just more of an energy expense with a small amount of benefit.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/16898/what-would-be-the-effect-of-increasing-the-mass-of-mars https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/16898/what-would-b...
- unchocked 8y agoThat link discusses bringing mass to Mars to increase its gravity. This conversation is about bringing gas to Mars to thicken its atmosphere. They’re very different ideas, and the second one is a lot more interesting than the first.
- ryanmercer 8y agoEasiest way to increase the atmosphere would be to add material though, in this case comets and asteroids that had significant amounts of ices (and hopefully lots of metals, even meteoric iron would be extremely valuable on Mars as a source of easy to process metal).