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They were talking about adding a jet to pump CO2 out of the atmosphere. Is there a chance you could direct the jet such that it intercepts Mars in a useful way?
by SapphireSun 12y ago
They were talking about adding a jet to pump CO2 out of the atmosphere. Is there a chance you could direct the jet such that it intercepts Mars in a useful way?
Then you get to rebalance both the planets atmospheres at once.
However, Mars has pretty weak gravity so even if you could, I don't know if it would stick around.
- scarmig 12y agoDepends on the timescale. Mars obviously has an atmosphere half-life much shorter than Earth's. At the same time, if its lifetime is a million or even a couple thousand years, it might be entirely suitable for terraforming for humans, depending on the rate at which we can replenish it. Of course, at some point we have to ask questions about how renewable a resource various elements are...