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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shakaar: [QB] In ENT � Terra Prime we see the terraforming of Mars underway and how Starfleet has begun to guide comets toward the Polar Regions to get more water on the planet- there are also domed cities on Mars at this point in time. I�m uncertain that Mars can ever be truly terraformed, especially on the timetable that we�ve seen in Trek. Mars has a lower mass than Earth, so it cooled faster, and though it has water and an atmosphere, I feel it once had more of an atmosphere, and more water, but that those have been mostly shed in the planet�s cooling, and it will continue to do so no matter how many comets we drop on it. Earth is protected by a magnetic field generated by the molten nickel iron outer core flowing over the solid nickel iron inner core, but as Mars has frozen solid, it does not produce a magnetic field, so the solar winds blow over it and very slowly carry away the atmosphere, and it also creates dangerous radiation levels on the surface if one were to stay. Though I think a technological way to create such a field is a worthy pursuit- I think we should also ponder a more natural means to carry it out. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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