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Can man alter Mars environment to make it more suitable for human habitation? How?

The planet Mars is a dry, cold, hostile planet that makes it inhabitable to humans.
Scientists believed that Mars was once had a life like Earth. But as it core freezes it causes the
Mars to lost its magnetosphere. Even though Mars is lifeless, scientists still believed that humans
can make this place support life in the near future. Yes, man can alter Mars environment to make
it habitable. This can be true if the methods of building factories that produce greenhouse gasses,
and nuking Mars with thermonuclear bombs would be successful.
Mars atmosphere is composed of 95.3% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, and
0.2% oxygen. Mars has all of the elements needed to support life but lacks the amount of the key
elements of life in the atmosphere (mostly oxygen and nitrogen). Also it is nearest to the Earth
which makes it a best possible planet to terraform. What we need to start is to make a global
warming effect in Mars that makes it atmosphere to thicken. The first method is building a
factories that would turn carbon, fluorine, and sulphur in the Martian soil into greenhouse gasses
since the soil absorbed these elements billion years ago when according to scientists the mars
had atmosphere that contains these elements. These factories would pump the elements into the
atmosphere and it will melt the thick layer of dry ice or frozen carbon dioxide that covers its
south pole and as it melt it will release carbon dioxide gas that would help trap more heat from
the sun. Also water may be present in the ice caps. These greenhouse-gas factories would either
have to be transported to Mars or made out of materials already located on Mars, which would
take years to process.
Last method is nuking the Mars with thermonuclear bombs. As bombs have been
dropped, its radiation would cause warming effect to its surrounding and eventually would cause
the ice caps on the polar region of Mars to melt which possibly some would become a vapour
which gives a percent in the atmosphere of Mars or make water present in Mars again. The
bombs contain carbon dioxide and continuous bombing of Mars will take thousand years but it is
the cheapest and best possible way. After years of waiting and the atmosphere is present we put
organisms like cyanobacteria or lichens to release oxygen that could make ozone layer that helps
to protect from harmful UV rays. Since Mars has no magnetosphere it is impossible to hold this
earth like atmosphere. But in the near future the humans could have a technology to revive the
Mars magnetosphere.
It could take many years to fully terraform Mars. It will take many centuries of human
labour and creativity to develop a habitable environment to Mars. All of methods that are
mentioned could become successful since human technology is evolving every year.

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