Elon Musk walks back ‘Nuke Mars’ idea, says maybe satellites will work better

[Mike Wehner]

It's only been a few days since SpaceX boss Elon Musk fired off a tweet reminding everyone that he wants to "nuke Mars," but he's already offered a possible alternative to that wild proposal. In a tweet on Tuesday, Musk proposed launching thousands of solar reflectors to the Red Planet in order to heat up the planet's surface, melt its reserves of ice, and release CO2 that could help form a more robust Martian atmosphere.

Humans are headed to Mars sooner rather than later, but what we're going to do once we get there remains to be seen. Dreams of establishing a colony on Mars may depend on our ability to make Mars a bit more like Earth, and that would mean beefing up the atmosphere.

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