Mars

## Paradise Habitability

> *Before humanity even knew what the stars were, we dreamed of visiting Mars. The bright red light in the sky has always held a particular fascination for our species, and now we can finally call it home.
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> Mars was once very much like Earth, but since then the atmosphere has thinned, the water has been hidden away, and unfortunately, all life has long since disappeared. Begin by thickening the atmosphere and warming up the planet, and then you can set about reintroducing water, and eventually life*.
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## About

**Mars** is a reddish cold, near-vacuum planet with a tiny amount of Oxygen and some Water, although it's mostly ice. It is the planet the player lands on in the Tutorial and the last planet in the Terrestrial Planets. Increasing Pressure will slightly increase the Temperature a little, and thus, increase Water slightly. However, none of these effects are enough to get the corresponding stats to paradise levels, so they will have to be increased with facilities. Mars contains little bit of water ice and thus, if the ice is melted it is still not enough to achieve human habitabilty.

* Terraformed Mars map with cities
* Terraformed Mars map without cities
* An almost terraformed Mars map
* Map of real mars
* Real Mars elevation map
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## Strategy

Begin by either establishing mines or trade routes. Then, research the Spaceport and build it on one of the cities. It will begin adding income and building up pressure. Colonize the two moons of Mars to build a Spaceport on any of them and get it to level X with events for max income. When Mars' atmosphere reaches paradise levels, demolish the Spaceport on Mars. While all of this happens, build a Soletta in orbit to get temperature to paradise levels. Rise the water level with Comet Slings, then rise the oxygen level with Kelp Farms, and finally the biomass with Forest Stands. If done correctly, the old barren Mars will turn into something more like Earth.

## Live Event Features

Mars is featured in these live events.

 The Dream of Mars | Horizon Corporation | Appolo Matiba | Legendary

\*Ability to recreate live event scenario in normal games

## Trivia

* Mars was once like Earth, but Mars' habitability ended 3.7 billion years ago when its magnetic field turned off because Mars is a smaller planet. Terraforming will require reactivating the magnetic field and making it permanent, since otherwise it would be impossible to transform Mars just by releasing carbon dioxide, Mars will be habitable once more, with adequate greenhouse gases as well.

## Attributes

### Temperature

130,000 mK (min)
210,000 mK (mean)
308,000 mK (max)

### Biomass

0 Mt

* When the sun turns into a red giant, Mars will lose its atmosphere and lava will probably cover great areas across its surface.

* In reality, the pressure is so low that water cannot be liquid. Water will either evaporate into space or freeze depending on latitude, season, and time of day.
* Mars's map is inverted. The east becomes the west and the west becomes the east (centered on Elysium, not Airy Crater). If place a site on 27S, 174E, instead the TerraGenesis coordinates will read, 27S, 6W.

* Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos have probably been captured by Mars' gravity about 2 to 3 billion years ago. But it's only a hypothesis.
	+ Another hypothesis suggest Mars's Mars's moons are formed when a planet about ⅓ the size of Mars hit it on the north pole. The debris ring formed a large moon, and it broke apart into Phobos and Deimos. The other debris fell down to Mars, forming craters and basins on its surface.

* Phobos is now getting closer to Mars — in about 43 million years it will be destroyed by Mars' gravity, giving it a ring. But the ring will disintegrate after a couple million years. Deimos is getting further from Mars and expected to leave Mars' Hill sphere 400–500 million years from now.

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