cm0002@sh.itjust.works to Space@mander.xyz · 2 days agoOur first terraforming goal should be the Moon, not Marsbigthink.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up175cross-posted to: space@lemmy.mlspace@kbin.social
arrow-up175external-linkOur first terraforming goal should be the Moon, not Marsbigthink.comcm0002@sh.itjust.works to Space@mander.xyz · 2 days agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: space@lemmy.mlspace@kbin.social
minus-squareGreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoMy 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 … 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
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThat’s pretty insignificant on a planetary scale, earth loses atmo at TEN TIMES that rate 😄
minus-squareGreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI’m just worried it’s going to be expensive to keep the atmo replenished
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoA 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.
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
…
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.