[calex59]

One of the ideas behind terraforming Mars is to implant methanogenes to “scrub” the atmosphere and make it hospitable to carbon dioxide consuming plants which produce oxygen during respiration.

It doesn't matter how much oxygen we pump into the Martian atmosphere, until we know how to restore the magnetic field it has lost, the atmosphere will never be retained, the solar winds will continually tear it off into the cosmos. That's what happened to the original atmosphere.

[KevinDavis]

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[rarestia]

Understood. Most of the discussions we had were completely theoretical and were not bounded by the physical or chemical realities of that environment. In the case of Titan, there’s already an atmosphere and likely the potential for success with terraforming.