Mars terraforming with atomic bombs

[lumen]

What are you saying, turn our spears into plow shears!
Or just give me more space to breathe?

It might work temporarily but the planets atmosphere has collapsed once and would fail again over time.
I think you might need something like moving the moons closer to provide gravitational heating like earth but the tiny mars moons may not be enough.

[PIH123]

It might work temporarily but the planets atmosphere has collapsed once and would fail again over time.

Correct.

And for those who may think otherwise, this was mostly due to the size of Mars and the relative size of its moons.

The relatively small size results in significantly less gravity than on Earth (1/3) which allows most gasses to escape the atmosphere.
Also the small size and lack of gravitational deformation of the moons has allowed Mars to cool to a point where the core is mostly solid.
This means that Mars has very little magnetic field which results in little protection from extremely deadly solar/cosmic radiation.

Both of these reasons are insurmountable.

Terra-forming Mars is a pipe dream for the uneducated.

Pete

[seychelles]

the reason being that MARS DO NOT HAVE A STRONG MAGNETIC FIELD LIKE EARTH
TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM THE SUN CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT OF EJECTED SPECTRUM OF
ALL WAVELENGTHS OF HARM FULL RADIATION. SO FIRST TWO NUCLEAR POWERED ELECTROMAGNET
ONE IN ITS NORTH POLE AND THE OTHER IN IT SOUTH POLE. 2 TELETRANSPORTATION OF LIQUID
HYDROGEN FROM JUPITER TO MARS  ATMOSPHERE .ONCE THERE LIGHTNING WILL DO THE REST
THERE WILL BE A BIG KABOOM AND THERE WILL BE ENOUGH WATER ON MARS TO FORM ALL THE
OCEANS.. THEN THE VOLCANOES WILL DO THE REST.

[Nink]

This is worse and the usual NASA moon walks, space probes and Mars rovers, We have now started outsourcing this to 3rd parties.
There will be an RFP for Mars Nuclear program SpaceX will win the RFP.  SpaceX will do some great CGI work and provide some data and we will all sleep happily with thought it is now a balmy 90 degrees at the local mars beech and the taxpayers pays the bill. 

[franco malgarini]

Is it possible to move the satellite of Mars Deimos in synchronous orbit. The Martian day is 24.7 h, while the orbital period of Deimos is 30.4 h, then very close to synchronism.
Having a satellite fixed on the Martian sky you could build a large solar reflector, with aluminum Deimos, to heat a large Martian surface, for example the human outpost



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