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And the weather is much nicer, even in Saskatchewan! You get all the air you can breath!

Honestly though - isn't Venus more likely to take well to terraforming




The problem with Venus is that the atmospheric pressure at surface level is about 92 times that of earth, the surface temperature is 735 K, and the atmosphere contains 96.5% carbon dioxide, while also containing significant amounts of sulfur dioxide. This is even more toxic than the Martian atmosphere.

If you want to terraform Venus to a (human livable) state you'd probably need to give it a solar shade to cool the planet to decent temperatures, shrub the 4.6 10^17 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and remove those 7.210^13 tonnes of sulfur dioxide.

edit Also, please note that Venus has a 117 earth day solar day, while the Martian solar day is only 24h 37m.

Sources: wikipedia, google, calculator


Venus - like Mars too, is missing an essential element for terraforming: water. On both planets this is long lost, and the constituent elements, espcially hydrogen, is gone from the surface.

Unless there is a way to massively mine the rocks for the hydrogen and oxigen, there is no other way to terraform a planet like Mars or Venus. I am afraid that would put the terraforming efforts like hundreds of years ahead.


Mars has plenty of water:

"More than five million cubic kilometres of ice have been identified at or near the surface of modern Mars, enough to cover the whole planet to a depth of 35 meters (115 ft). Even more ice is likely to be locked away in the deep subsurface." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars




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