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Letter: Comet water for Mars

Published 12 October 2005

From Mike Martinez

With all the water they may contain, comets could be a way of terraforming Mars. We could direct them into the atmosphere of Mars, creating heat, water vapour and untold amounts of other nutrients necessary for life. We may be able to speed up the colonisation of Mars by several dozen years.

Hudson, Wisconsin, US

Issue no. 2521 published 15 October 2005

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