Setting up a human presence on Mars will come with a huge range of challenges, many of which are linked to one essential requirement: Power. Whether it’s forcreating oxygen, driving rovers, providing heat and
Generally, viscosity is determined by the proportion of silicon in the magma, because of the metal's reaction to oxygen, an element found in most magmas. Gas content varies depending on what sort of material melted to form the magma. As a general rule, the most explosive eruptions come ...
Plastic is a serious problem because it's very cheap to produce, and it's not biodegradable because of its long, complex molecular chains. When plastic is recycled, it's usually made into a new form. The plastic is sorted into different types and colors, filtered and sifted of contaminants...
Establishing a human presence on Mars will be risky, but researchers are finding solutions that will keep future residents alive long enough to die peacefully.
Astrophotography is all about finding a happy medium between your camera settings and the photographic situation to produce a correct exposure. Look for an image where surface details are present and not overexposed; use the histogram on your camera's LCD monitor to make it peak off-center to ...
That's because the technology requires a steep energy input in order to heat a key component of the experiment to about 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees Celsius). Each time MOXIE runs, the instrument will spend about two hours warming up, then produce oxygen for about one hour. That ...
Many millions of years later, the first extremely small plants began to appear on the surface of the water. They multiplied and filled the oceans and seas with oxygen, which encouraged the later development of early shellfish and all sorts of fish. Next, green plants began to grow on land...
All buildings on Mars have a dependency on each other and some are required for the colony to grow. Building shelters for colonists to live in requires oxygen, generating oxygen requires plants, growing plants requires water, extracting water from ice requires power, generating power requires mining...
Mars does have an atmosphere, but it is about 100 times thinner than Earth's atmosphere and it has very little oxygen. The atmosphere on Mars is made up of mainly carbon dioxide.An astronaut on Mars would not be able to breathe the Martian airand would need a spacesuit with oxygen to ...
High-power fission-based systems on the Moon would enable splitting lunar water into hydrogen that can be used for propellant, and oxygen for astronauts to breathe. “We envision a water-based economy on the Moon, where what we need to fuel space travel can be extracted, ...