Thickening the air a planet already has.
Research into raising atmospheric pressure and warming a thin, cold world — desorbing CO₂ from regolith and polar reserves, and the role and risk of engineered super-greenhouse gases.
- ~6 mbar
- Mars surface pressure, the starting point
- PFCs
- Super-greenhouse agents under study
- Century-scale
- Honest horizon
// WHERE THE LINE IS
Nothing here is deployable. This is funded research and modeling, reported as such.
Horizon: Century-scale
The inventory problem
Warming a planet means finding the volatiles to warm it with. The open question is whether Mars holds enough accessible CO₂ in its regolith and caps to thicken the atmosphere meaningfully without importing it — current science suggests it likely does not, and we do not pretend the answer is settled.
What we actually do
We fund modeling of desorption budgets and the radiative physics of engineered greenhouse agents, and we publish the constraints. The value of honest negative results is that they redirect capital before it is wasted.
Research the upper ladder. Deploy the lower one.
Partner on the science, or put the deployable building blocks on a site today.