How does the disappearance of Mars affect Earth?

If Mars suddenly disappeared, the first thing Elon Musk would likely face would be a crowd of confused investors..

In the short term, as Mars’ gravity is much weaker than that of Earth, the planet’s gravity has almost no impact on Earth, so it will have almost no effect on Earth’s orbit around the Earth. Sun.

However, the sudden disappearance of a planet is possible causes instability in society. Additionally, Mars has been chosen as a potential planet for human colonization in the future. Therefore, this could create motivation to increase the development of space science, thereby accelerating the speed of interstellar colonization.

The sudden disappearance of a planet could cause social unrest.

The sudden disappearance of a planet could cause social unrest.

If Mars can disappear, people will definitely believe that Earth can also disappear at any time. And the most important effort humanity is aiming for is to create a unified, global space exploration program and establish colonies on other planets as soon as possible. This will ensure that even if Earth disappears, humans can still exist.

Additionally, the disappearance of Mars also violates the laws of physics that we know, so scientists will speculate that it is the result of an unnatural intervention, maybe it comes from a civilization more developed than ours in the universe. As a result, this could give rise to new religions or new wars.

When Mars disappears, people will believe that Earth can also disappear at any time.

Mars disappears, people will believe that Earth can also disappear at any time.

In the long term, Mars’ disappearance will likely result in two things:

First of alldue to the lack of gravity of Mars in the outer ring, the diameter of the Earth’s orbit will become slightly smaller, our planet will move slightly towards the Sun.

Although this small movement is insignificant, it can still affect the fragile ecological environment of our planet to a certain extent.

Monday, Earth will also be less likely to be approached by asteroids and the probability of collisions will also be lower. Asteroids are often said to hit Earth, but in reality these asteroids have orbits that intersect Earth’s orbit. To date, humans have discovered 1,113,527 asteroids, 98.5% of which come from the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

A large number of asteroids in the asteroid belt will be disrupted for a long time by the gravitational resonance of Jupiter and Mars, leading to a series of empty regions called “Kirkwood Gap”. In this area, asteroids will have irregular orbits, lack stability, and be easily pushed away due to the impact of gravitational resonance. In particular, asteroids located at the inner edge of the asteroid belt (the area closest to the Sun) will be easily affected by Mars’ gravity, causing them to deviate from their original orbit and then pushing them into stable space .

We can therefore say that Mars is like a gravitational slingshot. The new orbits of these asteroids will be elongated, the eccentricity of the orbits will become larger and elliptical, some orbits will pass through the orbit of Mars and will be missed by Mars. “throw” towards Earth orbit.

We can say that Mars is like a gravitational slingshot.

We can say that Mars is like a gravitational slingshot.

Therefore, when Mars disappears, the probability of asteroids in the asteroid belt moving inward to cross Earth’s orbit will be lower, and they will likely be “thrown out” by Jupiter. The exterior is higher and easier.

Removing all planets other than Jupiter and Saturn won’t change much.

The mass of the Sun makes up 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system, Jupiter makes up more than 70% of the total mass of the remaining planets, and celestial bodies make up less than 0.2% of the total mass. the entire solar system. SO, Removing planets other than Jupiter and Saturn wouldn’t change our planet too much in a short time.

However, every small change in our universe can also create big changes over time, like the butterfly effect. Thousands of years after this change, it is difficult to predict how these changes will evolve and affect the Earth.

And if Earth suddenly disappears, for Venus, its gravitational force with Jupiter will lack interference factors, so Venus’ orbit will become unstable, or fall into the Sun, or collide with Mercury. The importance of Earth to Venus is much greater than the influence of Mars on Earth.

For the vast majority of people, the disappearance of Mars does not affect life too much. Our civilization will not disappear with Mars, unless the Earth also suddenly disappears after Mars disappears in a short period of time.

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