On Terraforming Mars
Sven Gelbhaar
9/21/2025
Much thought has been put into making Mars a garden world. The notion
has been proposed that we mine the asteroid field that lays between
Mars and Jupiter to extract water and then bringing it to Mars to be
electrolysed into Oxygen and Hydrogen, so as to seed the atmosphere of
Mars into something that sustains life. What hasn’t been considered yet
is fissioning the surface components of Mars into breathable Oxygen.
The surface of Mars is, to the best of my knowledge, comprised of Carbon
and plenty of Iron. Iron could be fissed into breathable Oxygen with
a vast array of Fission Reactors on the surface of the planet, and I
whole-heartedly recommend doing this in the early days of the Terra-
forming of the planet, to be supplemented later on with astroid-field
mining.
Now the question remains: how do we maintain this new, breathable
atmosphere? Hopefully Mars’ gravity is enough to keep the Oxygen
(etc) bound to Mars.