Rebuilding the Atmosphere of a Dead Planet: Can Mars' Oxygen Be Recovered?

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Far from ideally suited to human life, I believe Mars does reside barely within the fabled GOLDILOCKS ZONE, the area around a certain kind of star where life can flourish and be neither frozen, burned, or centrifuged to death lol, or choked.

But Mars has a stripped atmosphere, and humans have only just begun practicing covert geoengineering on planet earth.(at the global scale, that we know of for sure).


What caused Mars to lose its atmosphere, and what caused the event that led to the high methane content of this planet's exhalations into space? Where is the oxygen, can it be recovered, and will humanity achieve the scientific fortitude and attainment to aid that process and habitate Mars, the Red planet?

Did you know that although Mars looks red to us, the sunsets and sunrises are BLUE because of the methane?

And with the right kind of fusion, Methane could power the earth for thousands of years.

But that is info for another thread. I want to find some info about Mars and whether or not the atmosphere could be stabilized and recovered, so that the storms diminish and the people could breathe again.

BTW an anoxic event usually refers to the ocean, where something usually methane causes an imbalance in composition and temperature of the water then the air.

[Lifebringer]

Do you mean like what is happening in the north with the ice melting and permafrost of the ponds putting methane in the atmosphere? There were a couple of YT studies from progressive tree hugger in the wild that was in a canoe, and put an empty bottle over some bubbles coming up from a lake or river there, and when she put the cap with a hole on top, and lit it on shore, it was flamable. I can't imagine all those methane permafrosted lands melting and the oceans that have now higher temperatures releasing mega tons of methane in the air. How many are there? WE're just finding the "oceanic dead zones" Is it too late?

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Couldn't technology, install metal rods that act as a thermostat in a freezer, and freeze it back below. A pulsing energy boost that keeps the temperatures in those frozen tundra frozen? Surely by now, this species has something to offer besides pollution devices? Surely they must realize they can't gas us to death without reprecussions. ONE town annialated, will mean arzes will roll and heads will swing.

[sdv]

Just one of the ideas being explored by doing experiments ...

Could Mars be Terraformed Using Photosynthetic Organisms?

Although Mars may not be habitable today due to a toxic atmosphere, bitterly cold weather, low pressures, and intense ultraviolet radiation, it may be able to be transformed into something that mimics earth using the process of photosynthesis. If the plants are able to survive these conditions could the atmosphere be transformed? Here is a step by step process of the role that plants may play in Mars's transformation.

Step One: Greenhouse gases and mirrors may be used to melt the Martian ice caps and the sublimating carbon dioxide

would begin to increase atmospheric pressure as well as increase the temperature.

Hardy photosynthetic organisms may be introduced to Mars using greenhouses to shield them from the UV

radiation and temperatures.

These plants would need to be watered using melting water ice from melting ice caps on Mars.



Step Two: Nitrogen that composes Martian rocks may need to be released to help the plants prosper.

The plants carry out photosynthesis and begin to take in the abundance of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.


Step Three: As the atmosphere slowly approaches a more earth-like state, more complex plants may be introduced and

further the process at an increased rate.

Enough oxygen may be produced to create an infantile ozone layer.

Step Four: Precipitation may begin to help water the plants, as Mars becomes more earth-like.

Could plants survive the conditions on Mars to begin to create an oxygenated atmosphere along with the possibility of a primitive ozone layer?

https://sites.google.com/site/terraf...3/the-question

This debate happened in 2004:

At the Astrobiology Science Conference earlier this year, scientists and science fiction writers -- from NASA researcher Chris McKay to author Kim Stanley Robinson -- faced off on the promises and pitfalls of terraforming Mars. Their debate is recreated in these seven pages. The Mars Terraforming Debate was co-sponsored by NASA's Astrobiology Magazine, the SciFi Museum (Seattle), and Breakpoint Media. It is reproduced here in cooperation with Astrobiology Magazine.
http://www.space.com/190-terraformin...ts-debate.html

[Operator]

I saw a documentary about earth's declining magnetic field some time ago. In this documentary a NASA specialist
spoke about mars. It is totally lacking a magnetic field ... if that's true then how can we speak about traveling to
mars and attempt to make it habitable? Unless ....

[Atlas]

It would take 100,000+ years to terraform Mars



Making Mars habitable

The possibility is considered that the atmosphere and climate of Mars could be altered to allow terrestrial life forms, and possibly human beings, to survive on the surface. Production of CFCs or other greenhouse gases on Mars would warm the surface enough for the regolith and polar caps to release their CO2 and raise atmospheric pressure to 100 mbar. If a large regolith and polar CO2 reservoirs exist, the pressure would continue to rise on its own. If these are absent, additional CO2 would have to be released from carbonate minerals. At this point, perhaps between 100 and 100,000 yrs, Mars might be suitable for plants. If there is a mechanism for sequestering the reduced carbon, these plants could slowly transform the CO2 to produce an O2-rich atmosphere in perhaps 100,000 yrs. If sufficient N2 could be released from putative soil deposits and the CO2 level could be kept low enough, then a human-breathable atmosphere would be produced.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991Natur.352..489M
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See also: Terraforming of Venus