Vyacheslav Avdeev, an employee of the Astrospace Center of the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, speaking at the Moscow Planetarium, spoke about the method of creating a dense atmosphere on Mars and transforming it into a second Earth.
“The famous popularizer of space Robert Zubrin proposed … to bomb Mars with Centaur-type asteroids … which are located between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune. They have a rather elongated orbit, and at the same time they quite often have cometary activity … They have a lot of volatile substances , … which are necessary to create a dense atmosphere of Mars and fill it with gases, “said Avdeev.
As for the methods of returning the magnetic field of the Red Planet, the scientist suggested using the idea of NASA employees, who proposed to place an electromagnet of 2 Tesla size near Mars.
The specialist emphasized that of all the ideas of Mars “revitalization” existing today, this is the most interesting and promising.
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