Thread: NASA attempts a return to Mars tonight
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Old 01-25-2004, 20:36 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Praxus
Maybe a few nuclear detonations could melt the CO2 and give it an atmosphere, then we could throw algea, and other autotrophic lifeforms on mars to create oxygen, then a little later we can bring animals and humans. We could have two planets!
I wouldn't count on it. The reason mars doesn't have an atmosphere is because it is not massive enough to hold it. Many of these SiFi scenarios and just physically impossible.
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