{"id":114271,"date":"2020-10-12T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-proposes-a-magnetic-shield-to-protect-mars-atmosphere"},"modified":"2020-10-12T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:22:46","slug":"nasa-proposes-a-magnetic-shield-to-protect-mars-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-proposes-a-magnetic-shield-to-protect-mars-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars\u2019 atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-proposes-a-magnetic-shield-to-protect-mars-atmosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Division (PSD) hosted a community workshop at their headquarters in Washington, DC. Known as the \u201cPlanetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop\u201d, this event ran from February 27th to March 1st, and saw scientists and researchers from all over the world descend on the capitol to attend panel discussions, presentations, and talks about the future of space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more intriguing presentations took place on Wednesday, March 1st, where the exploration of Mars by human astronauts was discussed. In the course of the talk, which was titled \u201cA Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration\u201d, Director Jim Green discussed how deploying a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+shield\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic shield<\/a> could enhance Mars\u2019 atmosphere and facilitate crewed missions there in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The current scientific consensus is that, like Earth, Mars once had a magnetic field that protected its atmosphere. Roughly 4.2 billion years ago, this planet\u2019s magnetic field suddenly disappeared, which caused Mars\u2019 atmosphere to slowly be lost to space. Over the course of the next 500 million years, Mars went from being a warmer, wetter environment to the cold, uninhabitable place we know today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Division (PSD) hosted a community workshop at their headquarters in Washington, DC. Known as the \u201cPlanetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop\u201d, this event ran from February 27th to March 1st, and saw scientists and researchers from all over the world descend on the capitol to attend panel discussions, presentations, and talks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}