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To: Bobalu

Long-term thinking: Find and divert an ice asteroid/moon into Mars atmosphere at the proper angle. Even tho most of it would “burn up” it would still add some necessary components to the Martian atmosphere. And some amount of water/ice as well.
I read there’s ice aplenty circling Saturn. There’s probably some in the asteroid belt, who knows that?


5 posted on 04/14/2015 4:27:44 PM PDT by citizen (WalkeRubio RIGHT For You 2016)
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To: citizen

A few thousand of them possibly


7 posted on 04/14/2015 4:29:14 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: citizen; Bobalu; GeronL
Even tho most of it would “burn up” it would still add some necessary components to the Martian atmosphere. And some amount of water/ice as well.

Without a strong magnetic field (as Earth has), solar wind would just blow the additional atmospherics right off (over time)...

Our moon - and how our Earth-moon system came to be - is apparently quite unusual, and is responsible not only for our planet being so stable, but also for having such a rich atmosphere.

8 posted on 04/14/2015 4:39:23 PM PDT by Yossarian
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Let me try that again:

Even tho most of it would “burn up” it would still add some necessary components to the Martian atmosphere. And some amount of water/ice as well.

Without a strong magnetic field (as Earth has), solar wind would just blow the additional atmospherics right off (over time)...

Our moon - and how our Earth-moon system came to be - is apparently quite unusual, and is responsible not only for our planet being so stable, but also for having such a rich but complex-life-supporting atmosphere.

9 posted on 04/14/2015 4:40:48 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: citizen

That would be man made climate change therefore not possible for US to do it. The Russians or some other country could and it would be OK.


13 posted on 04/14/2015 4:48:48 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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