25 May
2009
25 May
'09
8:07 a.m.
Roger, Occasionally I see something on TV where some commentator will suggest we may be able to re-jump-start the atmosphere on mars. For the reasons you mentioned it seems to me, unless I have missed something, it would be fruitless to try to reconstruct or hope for atmospheric conditions as we know them here on earth. I can only see it being done in an enclosed space not on a planet size scale. I feel that mars has reached an equilibrium in harmony with the conditions that exist there. We may be able to introduce plants to increase the oxygen level somewhat. The conditions don’t exist as you explained very well to hold an atmosphere at least for long with out it returning to near current state. Jim