It is often the Case that the more the planets are studied and included, the more the possibility of dressing them seems. MarchFor example, is the celestial body closest to the earth in terms of distance, but the data show that its conditions are extremely hostile to life.
Despite this, NASA has plans to send astronauts to the red planet, and Elon Musk is a vocal supporter to establish a human presence there. In the short term, the solution to Mars colonization is the construction of special closed habitats. But in the long term, some have suggested a more ambitious strategy. Lovers of spatial colonization offer Terraformants Mars-that is to say transform the planet to acquire characteristics similar to those of the Earth.
Scientists accept that any Mars terraction proposal is in decades, although calculations are already underway to assess how this titanic process could work. Leszek Czechowski, professor at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Science Academy, A propose How to convert the rusty planet to a place where humans can walk without space combination. To achieve this, the researcher suggests bombing him with asteroids of the great range of the solar system.
Mars is a desert planet, devoid of oxygen, and with a thin atmosphere that it prevents the accumulation of liquid water on its surface. None of these characteristics will be changed if the lack of atmospheric pressure is not addressed first. If a person is not protected on the Martian surface, they will not die from suffocation or freezing, but because their blood will boil almost instantly due to the lack of atmosphere.
On earth, atmospheric pressure is due to the total mass of gas contained in its dense atmosphere. Here, at sea level, the pressure is equivalent to 101,325 pass; On Mars, he barely reached 600 Pascaux, less than 1% of the land pressure. Thus, to start the terraformation, scientists must first thicken the Martian atmosphere. Other major challenges, such as extreme temperatures, protection against solar radiation and the presence of water, would then be treated in the following phases.
Each scientist exploring Mars terraformation comes to the same conclusion: there is simply not enough equipment on the planet to change its atmosphere, and any attempt to transport the elements there represents an unprecedented energy expenditure.
The Czechowski solution to this problem is to bomb the planet with asteroids. In his proposal, a large asteroid would be launched directly at Hellas Planitia, a huge impact crater in the southern hemisphere of March. According to this theory, the impact of an important asteroid, containing elements essential to the habitability of the planet, would lead to the heating of Mars while causing its atmosphere.
But that cannot be any asteroid – it should be one with abundant water and nitrogen. This immediately excludes everything from the asteroid belt of the solar system, which is between Jupiter and Mars. On the contrary, any large rock should come from the kuiper belt, the material disc surrounding the external solar system and is full of frozen objects and primordial water.
