Scientists discover way to restore water to Mars using dust

[Judi Lynn]

Harry Fletcher
Aug 08, 2024

The search for life on Mars, past or present, continues, and humanity making the Red Planet hospitable has been talked about for years now among the scientific community.

However, as you might expect, speaking about moving to Mars and actually making it a liveable place are two very different things.

Now, a new study has been released which looks into one possible way of making Mars suitable for human life.

Various ideas of raising the temperature on the surface from around -65 degrees centigrade have been floated before, but many of them would have required raw material to have been transported from Earth – which would have proven an exorbitantly expensive task.

However, Edwin Kite and colleagues at the University of Chicago in Illinois, have put forward one idea which they believe could raise the temperature on Mars by 30 degrees much more quickly and more cheaply than other methods.

This process is called terraforming, and would essentially involve pumping dust made by engineers into Mars’s atmosphere.

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