The game "Surviving Mars" deals with terraforming mars:ORIGINAL: arvcran2
Since Mars is considered dead due to it's lack of magma activity and production of magnetic field, would this have some kind of relation to the symptom of Olympus Mons?
Seems to me we would need to resurrect Mars before attempting to bring back an atmosphere.
https://survivingmars.paradoxwikis.com/Terraforming
There is a permanent loss of atmosphere, based on the strenght of the atmosphere. Countered by "Magnetic Field Generator", of wich you will need enough.
You need enough temperature for liquid water, but temperature requires a Atmosphere.
Adding Atmsophere will reduce the Dust and Meteor shower weather as well as improove wind turbine production.
But add toxic rain (until you got enough for clear rain) and reduce solar panel output (wich is already pretty bad on mars).
You also want to add vegetation wich does create a self-suistaining Atmosphere growth, but to do so you need enough water and temperature.
But if you got enough atmosphere, your people can stop wearing space suits everywhere.
I can give you a let's play of the game to look at:
https://youtu.be/GyFdPzioxHo?list=PLNn7 ... fD5V7Pzleo
Note that in Shadow Empires, the colonists may already terraform the planet. If there is CO2, liquid water and non-toxic soil, they will plant trees. Given a few centuries, that can snowball into a breathable atmosphere. However they can not do stuff like reinforcing the amtosphere or magnetic field
The formula for a O2 atmosphere is: CO2 + earth plants + time.
However in reality, such a terraforming should have a major cooling effect (given that you take most CO2 out of the atmosphere).
. Stars go through phases of size and radiation diffusion which could account for significant changes in planetology.
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