Thread:SpaceF/@comment-37144291-20181023105815

Although we will need to live under a dome for the first years, we the terrafarmers have BIG and LONG TERM plans... a full terraforming of Mars !

Let's follow a step-by-step thinking :

1. What does a plant need to grow ?

--> temperature + atmosphere + nutrients + water + light

2. What features do we need to restore/build on Mars ?

--> atmosphere, magnetic field, liquid water, oxygen, higher temperature, fertile soil, gravity (?)

3. Roughly, here are the first solutions we found:

atmosphere : thermonuclear weapons on the poles to melt the icecap and release the carbon dioxyde, allowing an atmosphere to form, the planet to heat and liquid water to flow

magnetic field : place a giant dipole at a strategic gravity equilibrium point on Mars

oxygen : import bio-engineered creatures

Don't get it wrong, we have a lot more details but this is not the purpose of this post... see you again soon !!

  