Elon Musk responds to claim he needs 10,000 missiles to terraform Mars
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- May 20, 2020
The SpaceX CEO is not too concerned about reports that the firm would need a huge amount of missiles.
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Mars Terraforming is Not Possible Using Currently Available Technology, Researchers Say
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- August 2, 2018
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.
Make Mars Livable with Asteroids: Researchers Propose Terraforming Plan
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2017
A research team has devised a plan to make a portion of Mars more Earth-like by slamming an asteroid into it.
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