While Curiosity rover finds out, terrestrial or Martian he found organics, NASA experts are working on projects on creating conditions suitable for life on Mars. 
A photo open source NASA experts are working on projects for creating habitable conditions on Mars The idea of turning Mars to the second Earth gradually migrates from science fiction novels in theoretical development. This hypothetical process even called terraforming. This week american The media, including the New York Times, announced Chris’s proposals Mackay, an expert on Mars from the Research Center. Ames (NASA). According to him, to “apple trees bloomed on Mars”, you must first raise the temperature and create the atmosphere from which these apple trees will take carbon dioxide, releasing life-giving oxygen. For of this, according to his plan, global warming is necessary on Mars. Mackay suggests making factories a warming catalyst generating greenhouse gases such as chlorofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons banned for release into the atmosphere of the Earth by Kyoto protocol. These factories will use chemical compounds obtained from Martian soil and atmosphere. Each such a complex will be a grandiose structure, consuming as much energy as a large nuclear power plant produces. By cost and complexity, this idea still looks fantastic, but it is quite feasible. Choice on chlorofluorocarbons and Mackay explains perfluorocarbons by being super-greenhouse gases, they do not decay for a long time, and from them it will not be necessary get rid when it comes to the first living organisms – both of these gas is completely harmless. According to his calculations, one hundred such factories, working continuously for a hundred years in a row, will be able to raise the temperature by Mars at 6-8C. It’s still terrible frost, unsuitable for life absolutely, but for carbon dioxide, a thick cap covering The south pole of Mars they will become the occasion for the beginning of intense evaporation. And here about greenhouse gas factories it will be possible already forget – Mars will take care of global warming. Its polar cap is able to warm the atmosphere to plus seventy degrees Celsius, so maybe at the end of this centuries-old period, people will have to think about creating more comfortable temperatures. But for the first apple trees, this will be the time. Of course not everything is so simple. It’s necessary not only to create an atmosphere, but also manage not to lose her. Billions of years old today back Mars lost its gas shell because it doesn’t have own magnetic field and the atmosphere just blew off the planet solar wind. How terraformers will cope with this problem future, it is not clear: whether they will manage to create artificial magnetic field, or initiate tectonic processes with volcanic eruptions that replenish the atmosphere, or they will redesign their greenhouse factories to generate other gases. But maybe no such radical steps to take and not need: perhaps the solar wind is no longer what it was billions of years ago, and not so dangerous for the atmosphere.
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