Mars has surface water, but not enough. Ceres, the largest asteroid, might be 25% water. If we simply crashed Ceres into Mars, that could cover 33% of Mars with oceans up to 5900 meters deep. (Spherical projection by request.)
‘if we simply crashed Ceres into Mars”
yes, play the largest most destructive game of terraforming. Do it.
Terraforming, by definition, should be pretty destructive.
Also this just sounds incredibly cool.
this would fuck up mars’s orbit though (otoh that could be beneficial), and the blast would… i don’t even know. they’d probably knock into each other at a relative velocity of multiple kilometers per second?? i don’t think we actually know what the physics of an impact like that would even look like.
the problem with mars colonization really isn’t lack of surface water anyway. in a closed system like a pressurized habitat you can recycle basically all of the water, and there’s plenty of ice for the taking at the poles. the important part of terraforming is atmosphere, once you’ve figured that out you can worry about oceans. (although i guess crashing ceres into mars would probably give it an atmosphere made of water vapor? which would be moderately helpful for colonists so long as it was less than earth atmospheric pressure, which it… probably would be? again, what the hell does crashing planets together even look like)
(…actually the first problem with mars colonization is surface gravity, but if the colonists and their descendants don’t plan to visit earth it’s… probably fine)
Well Mars’ mass would obviously rise if you added all that water, so that should help.
Mars is three orders of magnitude heavier than ceres. it wouldn’t make very much difference to surface gravity.
ooh yessss :>
2 months ago · tagged #fuck the natural order · 17,944 notes · source: cartographerswithoutborders · .permalink
abbygine liked this
jaspersforever liked this
arcanin liked this
silvershadowpoet reblogged this from dreamycastaway
icarus-knight reblogged this from katrinahelena
katrinahelena reblogged this from theartfulkain
xlr8er365 liked this
lozzashailenesaoirse reblogged this from the-kyoshi-warrior- lozzashailenesaoirse liked this
mytrueloveisfictional liked this
mrs-thor24 liked this- mrs-thor24 reblogged this from nakey-jakey
nakey-jakey reblogged this from wandadollar
tsohgima reblogged this from icarly-official
mochapunktrash reblogged this from thegrandweebofedenderry- mochapunktrash liked this
thegrandweebofedenderry reblogged this from spacepurp420
graphing-infinity reblogged this from finition
offtothebeach liked this
cerynn reblogged this from finition
iconicthot liked this
allwillbecomeindiana reblogged this from neets16
wickedposts reblogged this from finition
mcafeeleavemealone liked this
thefactionlessstars liked this
neets16 reblogged this from finition- neets16 liked this
slayphandoms liked this
finition reblogged this from gaymerrific
pardeisos reblogged this from incognihoe
mysticpotato654 liked this
dreamycastaway reblogged this from roachpatrol
exivy reblogged this from lonershawty and added:Exivy x S/O
runwei liked this
lovenotofthisworld liked this
this-is-your-last-dance liked this
falumpuswholock liked this
snowylittlebastard reblogged this from machu-pichu
scholarsrhythm reblogged this from machu-pichu
machu-pichu reblogged this from lepreax
setiaprenn reblogged this from suteki-senpai
voltrcn liked this
nisshoku-akisai reblogged this from nozoomtoujou- nisshoku-akisai liked this
cumberwubbed reblogged this from id-rather-be-singing
sangu-mitsuba liked this
dallythedino liked this
adisma liked this
a-crowded-nest reblogged this from biodeamon
rightintheniconicoknee reblogged this from yandere-seaport- Show more notes