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The problem with this

With no internal tectonism, Mars possesses no magnetic field, leaving whatever atmosphere there is to the whims of the solar wind and chemical interaction with the surface geology. With no global shield and no recycling of material taken up by the soil, the terraformed atmosphere would simply whittle away molecule by molecule.

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