• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    3 months ago

    That’s gonna be very difficult, restarting Mars’ dynamo is going to require some god-like amount of power. We don’t even know what powered the string dynamo it had 4 billion years ago; all we know is that there was a good magnetosphere, and then that collapsed and for a while a much weaker secondary dynamo took over, until that collapsed as well.

    To get back an earth like dynamo, we’d need to do something crazy like re-melt huge parts of Mars’ insides in such a way to generate a flow structure that would remagnetise the planet.

    I suspect it may very well be easier to cool down Venus than to restore Mars’ magnetic field when it comes to terraforming.