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To: Pontiac

Mars has 1/8th the mass of the Earth. The mass of all the main belt asteroids adds up to a fraction of the mass of the Earth’s Moon, which is itself 1/100th the mass of the Earth. IOW, this terraforming idea won’t work.

Martian habitats for humans would/will consist of orbital stations and closed, self-sufficient buildings on the surface.


13 posted on 02/09/2014 5:17:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pity about the asteroids, but we could still drop a couple comets on Mars to add water and gases to thicken up the atmosphere.


23 posted on 02/09/2014 5:59:46 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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