<sod>One key aspect of terraforming Mars is to protect the atmosphere (both present and future-built) from being lost into space. Some scientists hypothesize that creating a planet-wide  artificial magnetosphere would be helpful in resolving this issue.<ref name=":0" /> According to two NIFS Japanese scientists, it is feasible to do that with current technology by building a system of refrigerated latitudinal superconducting rings, each carrying a sufficient amount of [[Direct current|direct current]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nifs.ac.jp/report/NIFS-886.pdf |format=PDF |title=Feasibility of Artificial Geomagnetic Field Generation by a Superconducting Ring Network |last= Motojima |first=Osamu |last2= Yanagi |first2=Nagato |work=National Institute for Fusion Science (Japan) |date=May 2008 |accessdate=2016-06-07 }}</ref><eod>
<sod>One key aspect of terraforming Mars is to protect the atmosphere (both present and future-built) from being lost into space. Some scientists hypothesize that creating a planet-wide  artificial magnetosphere would be helpful in resolving this issue.<ref name=":0" /> According to two NIFS Japanese scientists, it is feasible to do that with current technology by building a system of refrigerated latitudinal superconducting rings, each carrying a sufficient amount of [[direct current]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nifs.ac.jp/report/NIFS-886.pdf |format=PDF |title=Feasibility of Artificial Geomagnetic Field Generation by a Superconducting Ring Network |last= Motojima |first=Osamu |last2= Yanagi |first2=Nagato |work=National Institute for Fusion Science (Japan) |date=May 2008 |accessdate=2016-06-07 }}</ref><eod>