Terraforming Mars

Question: With talk I have heard about Terra forming Mars, how can that even be a possibility with the weakness of it's magnetic field?

Asked by: Cyndy Rex

Answer: I’ll give you three guesses to figure out what continent this picture is centered on.

Nope, it’s not Africa, nor Europe. You’re not looking at the Americas or Asia either. This is actually Mars, specifically, this is an artist’s conception of what a terraformed Mars might look like, turning our favorite red dot into a blue one.

Humans have evolved to breathe a very specific type of air, Earth air. This mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and others is our special sauce. Unlike what you see in science-fiction, if you stepped through the Stargate or beamed down from the Enterprise, chances are you’d start to suffocate – and it doesn’t really matter how ‘earthlike’ the world is; the air is just wrong, it isn’t home. So, as humanity branches out into our solar system and beyond, how will we live on these other worlds. There are two options open to us; we can build biospheres or terraform the entire planet.

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