“Let's take some large asteroid and push it against Mars!” - said scientists from the United States of America, who developed an innovative concept for terraforming the Red Planet. More details about the ambitious project are reported by the TASS news agency, referring to the Space.com portal.
We are talking about the Mars Terraformer Transfer project, which involves the use of asteroid bombardment to change the Martian environment.
As part of the concept, it is assumed that by 2036, the Pastukh spacecraft will appear in the vicinity of Mars, which will attach to one of the asteroids and direct it to the planet.
“The fall of the asteroid should lead to the formation of a ten-kilometer crater, which, we assume, will be filled with liquid as a result of melting subsurface ice. The lake will be used by the colonists for a variety of economic purposes ", - say the scientists, who have even come up with a name for the future reservoir - it will be" Lake Matthew ".
The inhabitants of the coast of the Martian lake, according to the plans of scientists, will be engaged in mining. Which, in particular, fall on the surface of Mars along with meteorites.
Kolesnikov Andrey