Mars’s wild plan Terraform, pouring asteroids into it

It is often A case that the more planets are examined and understood, the more the possibility of their residence seems to be. For example, Mars is the closest blue body for the earth in terms of distance, but the data show that its conditions are extremely hostile to life.

Still, NASA has plans Sending astronauts to a red planet, and Elon Musk is a vocal supporter of establishing human presence. In the low period, the solution to Mars colonization is the construction of special closed habitats. But in the long run some suggested a more ambitious strategy. Enthusiasts of the colonization of space propose Terraforming Mars – that is, transforming the planet to gain features similar to the features of the earth.

Scientists accept that every TerraForming Mars proposal is already decades, although calculations are already underway to assess how this titanical process can work. Leszek Czechowski, a professor at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has proposed How to transform the planet in rusty color in a place where people can walk without space. To achieve this, the researcher suggests bombing him with asteroids from distant solar system.

Mars is a desert planet, without oxygen and with such a slim atmosphere that it prevents the accumulation of liquid water on its surface. None of these features will be changed if the lack of atmospheric pressure is first solved. If a person enters the Martian surface, he will not die because of suffocation or freezing, but because their blood is cooked almost immediately due to a lack of atmosphere.

On earth, the atmospheric pressure results from the total mass of gases contained in its dense atmosphere. Here, at sea level, the pressure is equivalent to 101 325 Pascals; On Mars, he barely reaches 600 Pascals, less than 1 percent of the pressure of the earth. To start teraform, scientists must first thicken the Martian atmosphere. Other main challenges, such as extreme temperatures, protection against solar radiation and the presence of water, would then be solved in subsequent phases.

Every scientist examining Terraforming Mars comes to the same conclusion: there is simply not enough material on the planet to change its atmosphere, and every attempt to transport elements there is unprecedented energy expenses.

The Czech’s solution to this problem is the bombing of the planet with asteroids. In his proposals, a huge asteroid will be fired directly at Hellas Planitia, a huge shock crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. According to this theory, the influence of a huge asteroid, containing the elements necessary for the planet’s residence, would make Mars heat up, while causing the atmosphere of its atmosphere.

But it can’t be just an asteroid – it must be one with bountiful water and nitrogen. This immediately excludes everything from the asteroids of the solar system that lies between Jupiter and Mars. Rather, every huge rock would have to come from the Kuiper belt, a disk surrounding the external solar system and is full of frozen objects and primary water.