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Depends on the timescale. Mars obviously has an atmosphere half-life much shorter than Earth's. At the same time, if its lifetime is a million or even a couple thousand years, it might be entirely suitable for terraforming for humans, depending on the rate at which we can replenish it.

Of course, at some point we have to ask questions about how renewable a resource various elements are...



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