The topic of terraforming Mars has been among the most ambitious plans of mankind for decades. It seems that the Martian nature only needs to be "tweaked" a little to turn the cold planet of storms into a viable world located in the immediate vicinity of the Earth.
Along with the priority tasks of increasing the oxygen concentration and raising the temperature on Mars, another problem needs to be solved: the restoration of the Martian magnetosphere. The fact is that there is no stable planetary magnetic field on Mars, although residual magnetic fields on the planet have been preserved, especially in the southern part. The issue of the fatal effect of the solar wind on a demagnetized planet is discussed in detail in popular scientific sources, including on Habré . Therefore, readers who are already interested in the problem of the Martian magnetosphere may well skip the review located directly under the cut and move on to the most interesting, in particular, to the engineering part.
Overview. The other side of the solar wind
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