Comments on: NASA's New Mars Mission: To Study the Mystery of the Missing Atmosphere

By: Baz

Baz — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:15:40 +0000

Umm, no. You’d need something the size of mars to do that.

By: James

James — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:19:48 +0000

have you ever stopped to think of why the planet Mars lost its atmosphere? studies indicate Mars was struck by a meteor storm therefore slowing the spin rate of the planet causing it to lose gravity and it no longer had the motion to generate a stable magnetic shield. could you not use the same event that caused this devastation on Mars to reverse the process for example harvest meteors from the asteroid belt and launch them at the planet so that the impact follows the natural spin of the planet giving it a speed boost. plus if you harvest the many huge ice berg like meteors you could also create lakes of liquid water at the same time.
please think about it.

By: rabidmob

rabidmob — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:21:03 +0000

Would be very interesting if we could learn to reverse the effect or something.

By: william

william — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:47:43 +0000

never mind

By: Danni

Danni — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:42:26 +0000

How incredible

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:58:38 +0000

Let’s hope the Martian Ghoul doesn’t claim another victim!

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:57:28 +0000

I’ve always wondered: Could a very large coronal mass ejection strip away the atmosphere of a planet? Would there be any evidence to confirm that as a cause?

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:54:11 +0000

lack of a magnetic field would make it impossible to terraform the planet i guess right? supposing any type of terraforming technology ever existed