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That 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 dif
by unchocked 8y ago
That 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).