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Why Is Mars Red?

Why don't we just take the excess carbon dioxide from Earth and put it on Mars?

  • Since Earth is becoming more and more polluted with carbon dioxide from pollution, why don't we just transfer the pollution and put it on Mars? Then we could grow plants on Mars (since they would be using the carbon dioxide) which overtime would produce oxygen that would create a habitable atmosphere for animals and bacteria. If we transfer water into the atmosphere, we could have a water cycle on Mars which would in the end make Mars much more habitable. The creation of an atmosphere would store heat from the sun, making it similar to our Earth (just a bit colder however). But besides the cold weather, we could survive if we rarely went outside. Eventually we may even be able to live outside if the weather increases enough. So why don't we try this? Or even plan it? Are we planning it? Could it work?

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    1st of all: Mars is already 95% CO2. 2nd of all: CO2 accounts for less than 1% of Earth's atmosphere. See my blog for further details. http://darylsforums.free-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=59&f=58&sid=1720566c390b981df72ce89f644f1488 Also I'm with the other two on this one. Too much energy, too much money, too many resources. You'd pollute more trying to get everything off the ground. As of now, nobody really know how to terraform Mars or if it's even possible. If you are interested you ought to research both Earth and Mars, plus the sun, the asteroid belt, and both current and future interplanetary transportation.

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And how do you imagine we could possibly do that? The carbon is from daily human activity + animal activity + volcanoes and other environmental interactions. Hypothetically they could terraform Mars and get an atmosphere going over several hundreds years, but you can't transfer ours.

Raatz

And how do you imagine we could possibly do that? The carbon is from daily human activity + animal activity + volcanoes and other environmental interactions. Hypothetically they could terraform Mars and get an atmosphere going over several hundreds years, but you can't transfer ours.

Raatz

1st of all: Mars is already 95% CO2. 2nd of all: CO2 accounts for less than 1% of Earth's atmosphere. See my blog for further details. http://darylsforums.free-forum.net/viewtopic.php?t=59&f=58&sid=1720566c390b981df72ce89f644f1488 Also I'm with the other two on this one. Too much energy, too much money, too many resources. You'd pollute more trying to get everything off the ground. As of now, nobody really know how to terraform Mars or if it's even possible. If you are interested you ought to research both Earth and Mars, plus the sun, the asteroid belt, and both current and future interplanetary transportation.

Daryl

1) It would mean stripping Earth of portions of its atmosphere. 2) It would require a fantastic amount of energy. 3) It would be insufficient to make Mar habitable. Transporting enough of our atmosphere to give Mars an appreciable atmosphere would create the problem of Earth suddenly having a scant portion of its original atmosphere. 4) As per 3), I am not a big fan of asphyxiation.

SpartanCanuck

Nice idea, but we do not have that technology yet. We've been able to land small rovers on Mars, but we can't yet get humans to Mars, much less megatons of CO2. Besides..if we had the technology to remove excess CO2 from our atmosphere, why take it all the way to Mars? Releasing it far enough out in space would be enough..but we do not have that technology.

Caitie

i just read an article about a start up company that found an economical way to convert co2 into fuel. the technology is 19th century. it,s the cost that has prevented this from being adopted. i,m curious to see where this goes.

David

Have you ever heard the expression of walking past dollars to pick up a dime? Doing this would take a trillion dollar problem and make it a 1,000 trillion dollar problem. Better to spend the trillion here and fix it.

Maybe it's just me

1) It would mean stripping Earth of portions of its atmosphere. 2) It would require a fantastic amount of energy. 3) It would be insufficient to make Mar habitable. Transporting enough of our atmosphere to give Mars an appreciable atmosphere would create the problem of Earth suddenly having a scant portion of its original atmosphere. 4) As per 3), I am not a big fan of asphyxiation.

SpartanCanuck

Nice idea, but we do not have that technology yet. We've been able to land small rovers on Mars, but we can't yet get humans to Mars, much less megatons of CO2. Besides..if we had the technology to remove excess CO2 from our atmosphere, why take it all the way to Mars? Releasing it far enough out in space would be enough..but we do not have that technology.

Caitie

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