A few hundred cubic miles of water in the form of stony-ice asteroids would be
needed to terra form mars, but it is about as possible as terra forming Venus,
which also need many hundreds of cubic miles of water to form calcium carbonates
in order to scavenge all the excess CO2 that is responsible for a surface
temperature above the melting point of lead.

JJ

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:58:44 -0400, "katysails"
wrote:


Venus is covered with clouds.

Venus could be terraformed and an atmosphere could be created from the one she already has. Albeit, we don't have the technology to pull it off yet. But we will. Much better than living in plasto-enviro units on Mars where even if there is water under the surface, it would not be sufficient to create a breathable atmosphere.

James Johnson
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