What would be a good way to tera form Mars?

Provided there Are no immediate living forms on Mars,please give me your idea on how to prepare Mars for Humans.Anything from thermonuclear mining to geothermal excavation and atmospheric channeling.What would be a good way to tera form Mars?
It wouldn't be necessary to get more water for Mars via asteroids. Mars has plenty of frozen water, mostly below the surface and at its poles. Also, Mars already has an axial tilt practically identical to that of Earth. It would be necessary to warm up the planet by unfreezing its frozen volatile inventory. By darkening the surface, or by using mirrors to focus sunlight on its polar regions, it would be possible to greatly thicken the Martian atmosphere. More CO2 and water vapor would in turn create a good greenhouse effect and warm the whole planet. A thicker atmosphere would also provide shielding from cosmic rays. Once Mars is warm enough, plants will grow there, boosting oxygen levels. Btw, while Martian gravity isn't sufficient to retain biogenic gases over geological time, the process of their escape is so slow that terraforming might still be worthwhile; replenishment wouldn't have to occur frequently.
everyone is complaining about what we're doing to this planet and you want to do it to another one??

start with sending all the tree huggers there, if they survive, it will be ready for the rest of us.What would be a good way to tera form Mars?
Mars is geothermal inactive. What you need to do is thicken the atmosphere and there but raise the temperature. I think that impacting with comets or using some kind of biological method is the best ideas.
Go out to the kuiper belt and the oort cloud and throw comets at it until it's obtained enough mass and water to make life more hospitable. You'd still have to worry about the weak magnetic field but if you wear your lead undershorts and use anti-ionizing SPF 200 you'd probably be ok.



If you want to increase the field strength then you're probably going to have to throw some iron and radionuclide-rich asteroids at it too and then either wait several hundred million years or find some way to put them deep into the martian core then wait only a few million years.



Of course if you're going to try and do something like this latter task then it would be better if you had just gone ahead and started assembling a Dyson sphere instead. Just forget about biological life and go digital.What would be a good way to tera form Mars?
I don't think it would be right to terra-form any planet.



It is like turning Antarctica into rainforest.
To Terra form Mars is a tall order with our current abilities. We are doing a great job in destroying the earth.

The following factor to make Mars a candidate for Terra forming are

1 Need plenty of water from a big icy comet enough to cover the planet like earth

2 increase in mass to hold onto the water and atmosphere

3 a magnetic field to protect the Mar from solar radiation (harmful) and the solar wind

4 and active core for renewal

5 a planet tilt that will produce season as on earth

With all that we would have a twin to the earth
No way to do it unless there was and Oxygen generator in existence and even then it would take thousands of years to make any noticeable change

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So it goes back to the prim of life the bactria doing the job

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Ta make Co2 so plants can make O-2

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Study the following two words.

terawatt

terraform



The prefix "tera-" means trillion. The prefix "terra-" means Earth.



For ideas, read Kim Stanley Robinson's MARS series.
the chances of anyone going to Mars, are a million to one, I said.
Mars is a terrible world to perform such a task... at least in the long term scheme of things... and based on the current level of knwoledge and technology.



It would be possible, to start today, a project that could *possibly* make Mars a livable planet. But for how long? A million years %26gt;%26gt; No way. 100,000 years %26gt;%26gt; Not a chance. 10,000 years %26gt;%26gt; maybe, if you limit yourself to single celled extremeophiles. 10,000 years %26gt;%26gt; maybe, if you limit yourself to single celled organisms. 1,000 years %26gt;%26gt; maybe, if you had the best fitted "adaptable to environmental changes" thypes of life forms.



There are two very, VERY significant problems with making Mars a livable world, and those problems, on the short time scales, can be overcome... we have no way to cuurently solve these problmes on the longterm scale.



1. Mars' mass. It is very much less meassive than the earth. One of the things we would need to do is give Mars an atmosphere. Unfortunately, it has quite the difficult time "holding on" to anything resembling a significant atmosphere. Solar winds have stripped it of such a thing long ago, and, should we replace it, the same process would occur. Mars does not have the gravitational muscle to hang on to an atmosphere for long periods of time. Now, this being said, if we were to give Mars an atmosphere, it would last for several generations, however, it would need persistent and conastant replenishment. Essentially, it would be a project that would need permanent funding and resources from those on earth. It can never be self sustaining.



Magnetic field. Mars lacks the protection from solar radiation that earth gets from this. You cannot even begin a terrafroming process without taking this into consideration.



Now, many sci-fi films and novels have pictured "domes" to protect potential cities on Mars. Although this idea could, within the bubble, from the issues listed above... the thin-to-none atmosphere that Mars has is still a major problem. Space debris will fall very violently to the surface of Mars... although the probability of one of these pieces of matter striking Mars and devastating the whole planet is exceedingly negligible, what is not negligible is the fast that the tiny particles will rather quickly cause stress fractures within the dome structure itself... meaning you would need "round the clock" maintnence crews, or an undiscovered material that would allow certain levels of the EM spectrum from the sun through, while blocking the harmful stuff, and at the same time, be able to withstand perpetual impacts from tiny falling fragments and debris from space.