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The new research suggests that forcing global warming by injecting greenhouse gases may be the best way to terraform, should governments decide to do so. The conditions warming Earth could be harnessed to transform Mars, the scientists determined.
Jump-starting global warming in a planet-sized laboratory would be a boon to science in some respects.
"Bringing life to Mars and studying its growth would contribute to our understanding of evolution, and the ability of life to adapt and proliferate on other worlds," says Margarita Marinova at NASA's Ames Research Center, where the study was done. "Since warming Mars effectively reverts it to its past, more habitable state, this would give any possibly dormant life on Mars the chance to be revived and develop further."
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Originally posted by mpeake
Well, I guess it's not too long before we can deplete another planets resources. Forget about trying to fix our enegery problems, lets just scrap earth and move onto the next rock.
Only problem is that terraforming Mars would take few thousand years.
Originally posted by mpeake
Well, I guess it's not too long before we can deplete another planets resources. Forget about trying to fix our enegery problems, lets just scrap earth and move onto the next rock.
Member magazine of astronomical association which I belong had article about this few years ago.
Originally posted by sardion2000
Well if we develop greenhouse gasses 10000 times more potent then CO2 then we could make it livable in far shorter time then thousands of years. I do not know how long it would take as I am not an Atmospheric Chemist.