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How about flipping that around and sending more sunlight to Mars to help with terraforming?
by rkagerer 3y ago
How about flipping that around and sending more sunlight to Mars to help with terraforming?
- arbitrandomuser 3y agoTerraforming is a great idea , but maybe before we try to control the entire atmosphere on another planet , how bout we start small with .. idk reversing the stopping and reversing last 50 years of atmospheric changes on our planet
- rkagerer 3y agoBut we're so good at global warming and apparently that's just what Mars needs.
- dylan604 3y agoi don't think it's a lack of sunlight that is the Martian problem. parking a magnetic shield at a Martian Lagrange point would be more beneficial to avoid blowing away whatever atmosphere the terraforming efforts produces
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agohow big would a martian level magnetic shield be?
- dylan604 3y agohttps://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo... " In the future it is quite possible that an inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind."
- M95D 3y agoMars can't be terraformed. Not significantly with our tech level or any forseeable future tech level. 1. Mars core is cold. There is no magnetic field to deflect solar wind. 2. Solar wind means no living on the surface and no surface agriculture. 3. Solar wind also means that any atmosphere we could potentially create will slowly be "blown away" (see details on Wikipedia). 4. A higher temperature will only vaporize the little water ice that remains, and those vapors will be blown away by the solar wind and be lost forever. Probably Venus could be terraformed if we could lower the temperature allowing CO2 to be trapped as limestone by microorganisms.