Elon Musk Says We Need to Live in Glass Domes Before We Can Terraform Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 24, 2020
In a reply to a tweet, Elon Musk said we will need to live in glass domes before terraforming Mars.
In a reply to a tweet, Elon Musk said we will need to live in glass domes before terraforming Mars.
The SpaceX CEO is not too concerned about reports that the firm would need a huge amount of missiles.
On Mars, the atmospheric pressure is around 0.6% of Earth’s. Any liquid water on the surface would very quickly evaporate or freeze. One of the challenges of terraforming the Red Planet is to increase its atmospheric pressure. The Martian polar caps, minerals, and soil could all provide sources of carbon dioxide and water to thicken the atmosphere. But a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy finds that processing all sources available on the planet would only increase the pressure to about 7% that of Earth, far short of what is needed.
A research team has devised a plan to make a portion of Mars more Earth-like by slamming an asteroid into it.