JF Mezei wrote on Thu, 9 Aug 2018
14:24:38 -0400:

On 2018-08-08 07:36, Jeff Findley wrote:

Actually you can estimate the rate of loss over time based on how much
of an atmosphere is there today. You can also estimate it based on
other factors like how big Mars is, how strong the solar wind is at that
distance, and etc. It's not like we're completely clueless here.


Since there is knowledge that Mars used used to have thicker atmosphere
but lost it over time, is there a point is going through efforts to add
more gas to its atnopphere if the extra gas will be lost anyways ?


It's all about time scales. Can you add enough gas fast enough and
will it lose it slowly enough to be worthwhile.

Everything we build is going to decay. This wouldn't be any
different.


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