Making Mars Inhabitable
Inject greenhouse gas.
Being farther from the sun that Earth, Mars is a much colder place making it impossible for us to survive there, not to mention the lack of resources? Some researchers said that the best way to make Mars a place we can survive on is to inject synthetic greenhouse gasses into its atmosphere. They believe the greenhouse gasses can be shipped or made there and can start the planets warming. This would melt the ice caps providing water which is essential for us to live there. Some people believe that we have no right changing another planets temperature but others, me being one of them, believe that Mars could give us an advantage in the overcrowding earth. The overpopulation on earth is cutting down its resources
The new research envisioned how man-made greenhouse gases would affect Mars’ temperature and melt water ice and carbon dioxide ice at the poles. Artificially created gases could be 10,000 times more effective than carbon dioxide in warming up the Red Planet. In my opinion I believe that leaving the global warming to just carbon dioxide is the best thing to do because having a gas that works to well might overheat the planet making it once again inhabitable. Once at the state of being to hot, how are we going to reverse it?
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4 Responses to “Making Mars Inhabitable”
On June 30, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Temperature and atmospheric density and makeup notwithstanding, even if Mars were warmer it would still require a magnetosphere of some sort to protect the surface dwellers from the solar radiation.
I should think that a few, oh I dunno, well-placed atomic devices exploded in the core might melt enough of its solid core to liquid, whereby it would begin to rotate as it does for Earth, and give off a protective magnetosphere. A ‘warm planet’ is secondary to a place protected from solar radiation. Heck, that is the biggest problem now with any proposed permanent Lunar Station; protection from the solar radiation.
But your thoughts are intriguing. I would be for terra-forming a non-inhabited planet to our needs.
On June 30, 2009 at 8:33 pm
That is completely true. In addition, the resources that are needed would be almost impossible to transport. The lack of a magnetosphere could be countered with a man made biome (correct term?) with conditions separate from the planet’s. The atmosphere will be altered with protection from solar radiation.
On November 12, 2009 at 4:08 pm
mine is better http://scienceray.com/astronomy/greening-the-red-planet/
On November 12, 2009 at 4:10 pm
i put it in my school newspaper and it was rated the best article of the year
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