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It would make Mars warmer. It would melt all the ice and CO2. It would give Mars an ocean. Of liquid rock. This is assuming that it doesn't destroy Mars complet
by ianburrell 2y ago
It would make Mars warmer. It would melt all the ice and CO2. It would give Mars an ocean. Of liquid rock. This is assuming that it doesn't destroy Mars completely. There might be enough fragments to make Solar System dangerous place and destroy life on Earth.
Europa is the size of our Moon. Colliding it with Mars would be similar to the collision that formed our Moon.
- Mistletoe 2y agoBut would it stay on Mars? I thought the issue was there was no dynamo in the core, which lets solar winds strip it away. How long would it stay?
- ianburrell 2y agoIt would stay molten for millions of years. Not sure if Europa's water would be flung into space, make atmosphere, or make a boiling ocean.
- yobbo 2y agoThere's probably a way to engineer it such that the spin of the planet is 24h, the core is spun up. We'd also like ~365 day years.
- px43 2y agoAt some point I saw a design for a machine you could park at the Lagrange point between Mars and the Sun that would collect solar power and spit out a magnetic field strong enough to deflect enough of the solar winds that we wouldn't need to worry about that.
- yobbo 2y agoLet's do it. No one remembers a coward.
- jajko 2y agoAlso nobody remembers when there is nobody alive