Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars

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Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars

Post by Devin » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:53 am

Zubrin wrote:The planet Mars, while cold and arid today, once possessed a warm and wet climate, as evidenced by extensive fluvial features observable on its surface. It is believed that the warm climate of the primitive Mars was created by a strong greenhouse effect caused by a thick CO2 atmosphere. Mars lost its warm climate when most of the available volatile CO2 was fixed into the form of carbonate rock due to the action of cycling water. It is believed, however, that sufficient CO2 to form a 300 to 600 mb atmosphere may still exist in volatile form, either adsorbed into the regolith or frozen out at the south pole. This CO2 may be released by planetary warming, and as the CO2 atmosphere thickens, positive feedback is produced which can accelerate the warming trend. Thus it is conceivable, that by taking advantage of the positive feedback inherent in Mars' atmosphere/regolith CO2 system, that engineering efforts can produce drastic changes in climate and pressure on a planetary scale.
Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars

How amazing would something like this be!!
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Post by Bas » Sat Dec 31, 2005 11:01 am

I love those stories about Mars. Those Pathfinder stories from last summer were very exciting! How exciting would it be if they find any fossil of lifeform on Mars? I don't think that's going to happen, but the idea is a great one.

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