Generating Oxygen on Mars?

[Serendipity]

NASA are planning to send an experiment to Mars in one of the 2020 launches to see if they can generate oxygen on Mars from the its atmosphere... see Nasa plans to extract oxygen from Mars to make a new atmosphere

 

[J Riff]

Next comes plumbing and bacteria and Earth diseases!

 

[Dave]

Next comes plumbing and bacteria and Earth diseases!

Even before that comes taxing air to breath!

 

[Ursa major]

Even before that comes taxing air to breath!

I'm sure I heard that there was a film about this. It was, I think, called...




Mars: A Tax!

 

[BAYLOR]

NASA are planning to send an experiment to Mars in one of the 2020 launches to see if they can generate oxygen on Mars from the its atmosphere... see Nasa plans to extract oxygen from Mars to make a new atmosphere

The problem is that , without an active core and magnetic field,any atmosphere that they create will only get stripped away by the solar winds.

 

[Ursa major]

They're planning to obtain the oxygen from the existing Martian atmosphere, so it would be impossible to use the oxygen obtained in this way to increase the amount of oxygen in the Martian atmosphere.

 

[Alexa]

It's just an experiment. It might or might not work. We can check in 2020, if it was successful.

 

[Vertigo]

The problem is that , without an active core and magnetic field,any atmosphere that they create will only get stripped away by the solar winds.

They're planning to obtain the oxygen from the existing Martian atmosphere, so it would be impossible to use the oxygen obtained in this way to increase the amount of oxygen in the Martian atmosphere.

Yes, I don't think they're looking at creating a breathable atmosphere on Mars quite yet. Rather they're looking at ways to obtain oxygen for something like a human habitat on Mars. If they can't generate the oxygen locally then no habitat is going to last long.

 

[Serendipity]

The problem is that , without an active core and magnetic field,any atmosphere that they create will only get stripped away by the solar winds.

I understand NASA is also working on some form of magnetic shield design for Mars.

 

[J Riff]

IF you believe a word of it. The o2 is hiding inside the planet, where the cheese grows.

 

[BAYLOR]

IF you believe a word of it. The o2 is hiding inside the planet, where the cheese grows.

I just don't see how its air could be in the crust.

But it is possible we might find sealed subterranean caverns with air.

 

[J Riff]

Heh heh. Well, NASA always tells the truth, I believe everything I read, but the cheese rumour just won't go away. Red cheese, ew, no wonder there's no life there.

 

[BAYLOR]

Heh heh. Well, NASA always tells the truth, I believe everything I read, but the cheese rumour just won't go away. Red cheese, ew, no wonder there's no life there.

Yes because the extra Cheesy red crust of mars caused all life go extinct due to cheese related constipation.

 

[Cathbad]

Yes because the extra Cheesy red crust of mars caused all life go extinct due to cheese related constipation.

but the cheese rumour just won't go away. Red cheese, ew, no wonder there's no life there.

HEYYY!!

There'll be no dissing of cheese here!!

 

[BAYLOR]

HEYYY!!

There'll be no dissing of cheese here!!

And why not ? It probably ended all life mars! It was Cheese related bacteria that ended to poor martins in Wells novel War of the worlds because all of them without exception died on the Jon.

 

[Cathbad]

That's there own fault.

If you don't want cheese... ALL THE MORE FOR ME!!!

 

[Alexa]

You all seem to believe there is no chance to get humans on Mars.

 

[BAYLOR]

You all seem to believe there is no chance to get humans on Mars.

Its not impossible to get a man to Mars but it the time and the cost and technical hurdles will be considerable.

 

[Alexa]

Didn't you hear the news yet ? Those who have enough money, they already spend them in this future mission.

 

[Vertigo]

Oh I fully believe we will eventually put humans on Mars. But don't underestimate the level of difficulty involved and, once there, it will be even longer, if ever, before humans can walk about on the surface without serious atmospheric and radiation protection.