Mars open-atmosphere terraforming requires exaton-class volatile inventories and sustained multi-100 TW to PW power over centuries, whereas regional paraterraforming is plausible with near-term industry.
∼ 3 × 109 kg yr−1 for the illustrative 30 L s−1 case), and the maintained column mass scales as Σ p ∼ ˙Mpτp/(4πR2 Mars) (Sec
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Terraforming Mars: Mass, Forcing, and Industrial Throughput Constraints
Mars open-atmosphere terraforming requires exaton-class volatile inventories and sustained multi-100 TW to PW power over centuries, whereas regional paraterraforming is plausible with near-term industry.