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Should we terraform Mars? (en.wikipedia.org)

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/546668

If so, this should not preclude us from cleaning up our own planet first!

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[–] partial_accumen 1 points 1 year ago

Mars doesnt have a magnetosphere and as a result solar winds would erode away the added gasses and water vapor we manage to add into the system.

It seems to me that Venus would be a better terraforming candidate than Mars. It will be a monumental amount of work and time with technology and materials that don't exist today thought. However, Venus feels like its in a better place physically and metaphorically. Huge problems to overcome before we could even start, but it seems like the right ingredients are there already which we can't say for Mars.