I am curious how solar winds would deplete any gasses we vent onto the surface of Mars when it doesn’t have a magnetic field to stop or slow any of it. 🤔
A civilization that can add enough gases to Mars to create close to Earth’s atmosphere isn’t concerned with minor maintenance like that. A small comet body’s worth every hundred years (if even that often), child’s play.
I am curious how solar winds would deplete any gasses we vent onto the surface of Mars when it doesn’t have a magnetic field to stop or slow any of it. 🤔
My understanding is that solar winds stripping your atmo is so slow it’s a problem on the scale of millions of years
Let me check a source
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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-mission-reveals-speed-of-solar-wind-stripping-martian-atmosphere/
Okay 21k lb during an earth day does seem like a lot
That’s pretty insignificant on a planetary scale, earth loses atmo at TEN TIMES that rate 😄
I’m just worried it’s going to be expensive to keep the atmo replenished
A civilization that can add enough gases to Mars to create close to Earth’s atmosphere isn’t concerned with minor maintenance like that. A small comet body’s worth every hundred years (if even that often), child’s play.