New on marsterraforming.substack.com: "A Million Fireflies in the Martian Sky? On Warming Mars Using Solar Sails", by Ari Essunfeld. Based on work by Ari Essunfeld, Yuji Takubo, and Casey Handmer.
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Terraforming session @agu.org 2025 Fall Meeting: P008 - Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth

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The Hadley cell strengthens under warming, aiding mixing.

Both compositions can give fast global warming of ~30 K. We infer that 2 liters/second release rate of graphene made from Mars' atmosphere via CO2-electrolysis could double Mars' greenhouse effect (+5 K).

To warm Mars using engineered aerosol, particles released locally must disperse globally. Using a plume-tracking climate model without a water cycle, we investigate radiative-dynamical feedback from surface release of two particle compositions: graphene and Al.

Warming Mars' surface could be a step toward making it suitable for life, but would represent a major science and engineering challenge.

🚨🚨New paper alert! "Atmospheric dynamics of first steps toward terraforming Mars", Richardson et al. 🚨🚨