Terraforming Mars

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Terraforming Mars

• Raise Mean Temp
• CO2 in the atmos
• Polar caps
• Raise albedo (reflectivity)
• White reflects 100 (albedo 1)
• Flat black has an albedo 0
• Polar caps get a flat black coating,
• O2 - plants
• Liquid surface water

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Terraform Mars

• 15 psi atmospheric pressure
• Add gases to atmosphere, continually because
  Mars mass is too small to retain an atmosphere
  of 15 psi