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Silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, Sagan suggested that vaporizing the northern polar ice caps would "yield ~10 s g cm-2 of atmosphere over the planet, higher global temperatures through the greenhouse effect, and a greatly increased likelihood of liquid water."
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But what's to keep solar flairs/winds from just blowing it away? And then there are the noxious soil partials and radiation...I just don't think it's plausible.
I hope you're astrophysicist and I can trust you more than those silly researches from the article, right bud?